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- 2014
- year of publication
- 256
- pages
- English (United Kingdom)
- language
- Softcover
- cover
- Publisher
- picador
- ISBN-13
- 978-14-4723-939-0
- EAN
- 9781447239390
- Publication date
- 2014-07-03
- Book
- Collected Stories · 1 edition
The publisher on this edition
'It's the short stories which make him one of the greatest writers of the last century and the present one, up there with Carver and Cheever, the mind-blowing Lydia Davis - who has just won the Man Booker International Prize - and the Fitzgerald of Babylon Revisited . Republished this month, the strongest of Salter's stories are shadowy and sinister with a whiff of his two favourite perfumes, sex and death, hanging over the scarifying prose . . . What makes the short stories perfect are the fully-mastered qualities . . . 'style, structure and authority.'' Financial Times