James Salter - All That Is

His mind moved elsewhere, to the great funerary city with its palazzos and quiet canals, the lions that were its feared insignia.

“You know,” he said, “I’ve been thinking about Venice. I’m not sure Wells was right about the best time to go there. January is so damned cold. I have a feeling it would be better to go before then. So what, if there’re some crowds. I can ask him about hotels.”

“Do you mean it?”

“Yes. Let’s go in November. We’ll have a great time.”

James Salter is the author of numerous books, including the novels Solo Faces , Light Years , A Sport and a Pastime , The Arm of Flesh (revised as Cassada ), and The Hunters; the memoirs Gods of Tin and Burning the Days; the collections Dusk and Other Stories , which won the 1989 PEN/Faulkner Award, and Last Night , which won the Rea Award for the Short Story and the PEN/Malamud Award; and Life Is Meals: A Food Lover’s Book of Days , written with Kay Salter. He lives in New York and Colorado.

Burning the Days • 978-0-307-78171-0

Dusk and Other Stories • 978-1-58836-958-1

Last Night • 978-0-307-42656-7

Life Is Meals: A Food Lover’s Book of Days • 978-0-307-49644-7

Light Years • 978-0-307-78172-7

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Last Night

Dusk and Other Stories

Solo Faces

Light Years

A Sport and a Pastime

Cassada (previously published as The Arm of Flesh )

The Hunters

Life Is Meals: A Food Lover’s Book of Days (with Kay Salter)

There and Then

Gods of Tin

Burning the Days

PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF

Copyright © 2013 by James Salter

All rights reserved.

Published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.

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Knopf, Borzoi Books, and the colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.

A portion of this work was originally published in The Paris Review No. 203 (Winter 2012).

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Salter, James.

All that is : a novel / James Salter.—1st ed.

p. cm.

eISBN: 978-0-307-96109-9

1. Book editors—Fiction. 2. Man-woman relationships—Fiction. 3. Betrayal—Fiction. I. Title.

PS3569.A4622A44 2013

813′.54—dc22 2012020914

Front-of-jacket photograph by Wayne Levin/Getty Images

Jacket design by Peter Mendelsund

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