This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
2010 Modern Library Edition
Copyright © 1988 by James Salter
Introduction copyright © 2010 by Philip Gourevitch
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Published in the United States by Modern Library, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. Originally published by North Point Press, San Francisco, in 1988.
Grateful acknowledgment is made to The Paris Review, where “Am Strande von Tanger,” “The Cinema,” “Via Negativa,” and “The Destruction of the Goetheanum” first appeared; to Grand Street, for the publication of “Lost Sons,” “Akhilno,” and “Twenty Minutes”; to Esquire for “Foreign Shores,” “Dusk,” and “American Express”; and to The Carolina Quarterly, for the publication of “Dirt.”
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