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He flew more than combat missions between February 12 and August 6, and was credited with a MiG victory on July 4, He used his Korean experience for his first novel, The Hunters , which was made into a film in starring Robert Mitchum. The movie version of The Hunters was honored with acclaim for its powerful performances, moving plot, and realistic portrayal of the Korean War. Although an excellent adaptation by Hollywood standards, it was very different from the original novel, which dealt with the slow self-destruction of a year-old fighter pilot, who had once been thought a "hot shot" but who found only frustration in his first combat experience while others around him achieved glory, some of it perhaps invented.
Horowitz subsequently was stationed in Germany and France, promoted to major, and assigned to lead an aerial demonstration team; he became a squadron operations officer, in line to become a squadron commander.
In his off-duty time he worked on his fiction, completing a manuscript that eventually was rejected by publishers, and another that became The Hunters. Despite the responsibilities of a spouse and two small children, he abruptly left active duty with the Air Force in to pursue his writing, a decision he found difficult because of his passion for flying. In total, he had served twelve years in the U. Air Force , the last six as a fighter pilot. His works based on his Air Force experiences have a fatalistic tone: An extensively-revised version of the novel was reissued in as Cassada.
Salter however, later disdained both of his "Air Force" novels as products of youth "not meriting much attention. Salter and his first wife Ann divorced in , having had four children: Allan born , died , Nina born , Claude and James twins, born Starting in he lived with journalist and playwright Kay Eldredge.
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They had a son, Theo Salter, born in , and they married in Paris in A Food Lover's Book of Days , in Salter took up film writing, first as a writer of independent documentary films, winning a prize at the Venice Film Festival in collaboration with television writer Lane Slate Team, Team, Team. He also wrote for Hollywood, although disdainful of it. His last script, commissioned and then rejected by Robert Redford , became his novel, Solo Faces. Widely regarded as one of the most artistic writers of modern American fiction, Salter was critical of his own work, having said that only his novel A Sport and a Pastime comes close to living up to his standards.
Set in post-war France, A Sport and a Pastime is a piece of erotica involving an American student and a young Frenchwoman, told as flashbacks in the present tense by an unnamed narrator who barely knows the student, also yearns for the woman, and freely admits that most of his narration is fantasy.
Many characters in Salter's short stories and novels reflect his passion for European culture and, in particular, for France, which he describes as a "secular holy land. His writing often is described by reviewers as "succinct" or "compressed" [ citation needed ] , with short sentences and sentence fragments, and switching between first and third persons, as well as between the present and past tenses.
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His dialogue is attributed only when necessary to keep clear who is speaking, otherwise he allows the reader to draw inferences from tone and motivation. His memoir Burning the Days uses this prose style to chronicle the impact his experiences at West Point, in the Air Force, and as a celebrity pseudo-expatriate in Europe had on the way he viewed his life-style changes. Although it appears to celebrate numerous episodes of adultery , in fact, Salter is reflecting on what has transpired and the impressions of him it has left, just as does his poignant reminiscence on the death of his daughter.
A line from The Hunters expresses these feelings: Salter published a collection of short stories, Dusk and Other Stories in Salter's writings—including correspondence, manuscripts, and heavily revised typescript drafts for all of his published works including short stories and screenplays—are archived at the Harry Ransom Center in Austin, Texas.
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Return to Book Page. Soldiers Once and Still: As the world enters a new century, as it embarks on new wars and sees new developments in the waging of war, reconsiderations of the last centuryOCOs legacy of warfare are necessary to our understanding of the current world order. In Soldiers Once and Still, Alex Vernon looks back through the twentieth century in order to confront issues of self and community in veteransOC As the world enters a new century, as it embarks on new wars and sees new developments in the waging of war, reconsiderations of the last centuryOCOs legacy of warfare are necessary to our understanding of the current world order.
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