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Gods of Tin : the Flying Years by James Salter, Jessica Benton, William Benton is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Gods of Tin : the Flying Years about?

A singular life often circles around a singular moment, an occasion when one’s life in the world is defined forever and the emotional vocabulary set. For the extraordinary writer James Salter, this moment was contained in the fighter planes over Korea where, during his young manhood, he flew more than one hundred missions. As The New York Times noted, "It isn’t often that a writer of superlative skills knows enough about flying to write well about it; Saint-Exupery was one; Salter is another." The editors have gathered selections from a journal Salter kept during the Korean War, published here for the first time, and assembled selections from two novels, The Hunters and Cassada, and from the author’s celebrated memoir, Burning the Days. As the editors comment in a brief introduction, "It is, as a record of the day-to-day, mission-to-mission life of a young fighter pilot, a remarkable document by any standard. But it provides as well a view into the crucible of a writer’s beginnings, like pencil studies that precede a painting, in which the essential qualities of the artist’s hand are unmistakable.’ "

Who reads Gods of Tin : the Flying Years?

Author

James Salter, Jessica Benton, William Benton

Publisher

Counterpoint Press

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9781593760069

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Engineering, Biography, Memoir

Rating

3.83 / 5 (74 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14