All That Is: A Novel [Paperback]

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All That Isexplores a life unfolding in a world on the brink of change. Philip Bowman returns to America from the battlefields of Okinawa and finds success in the competetive world of publishing in postwar New York—yet what he most desires, and what eludes him, is love. 

Here is PEN/Faulkner winner James Salter's dazzling, sometimes devastating portrait of love and ambition, a fiercely intimate account of the great shocks and grand pleasures of being alive. 

“A crowning achievement. . . . If there were a Mount Rushmore for writers, [Salter] would be there already.”
—The New York Times Book Review

“Magnificent. . . . A major literary event. . . . Salter, who has the gift of writing sentences that exactly reproduce what we feel and think in the moment we feel and think it, moves beyond that incomparable skill and does something even more difficult: He gives us his heart.”
—The Huffington Post

“Magical . . . A plaintive, impressionistic look at how we live in time.”
—The Washington Post

“Vividly sketched. . . . Salter’s surprising, striking grace is there in every scene. . . . Breathtaking.”
—Chicago Tribune

“Intimate, rueful and finely observed.”
—Time

“A writer of tremendous ability. . . . An absolute stunner.”
—The Christian Science Monitor

“Shimmering. . . . Intoxicating. . . . Few can match Salter’s depictions of life’s physical pleasures, the sheer sensual delight of being in this world. . . .All That Is will last.”
—San Francisco Chronicle

“Exquisite. . . . A mature, unsentimental story of one man’s restless search for lovlă