Dusk and Other Stories

The Hunters

A Sport and a Pastime

Light Years

Solo Faces

Cassada

(previously published as The Arm of Flesh)

Last Night

NONFICTION

Burning the Days

There and Then

Life is Meals (with Kay Salter)

Gods of Tin

Copyright

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

All rights reserved.

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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