# Light Years

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- Book: [Light Years](https://www.bookquiver.com/james-salter/light-years) ([Light Years.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/james-salter/light-years.md))
- Authors: [James Salter](https://www.bookquiver.com/james-salter)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4118-863-8
- Pages: 336
- Published: 2007-03-01
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Nedra and Viri are a married couple whose favoured life is centred around dinners, ingenious games with their children, enviable friends and near-perfect days passed skating on a frozen river or sunning on the beach. But fine cracks are beginning to spread through the shimmering surface of their life - flaws that will eventually mar the lovely picture beyond repair. Seductive, witty, tender and resonant, Light Years is an exquisite novel of lost lives and the elusiveness of happiness.