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Item Details
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CASSADA
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| By: |
James Salter |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| List price:
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£10.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1860469256 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781860469251 |
| Publisher: |
VINTAGE PUBLISHING |
| Pub. date: |
7 August, 2003 |
| Pages: |
224 |
| Description: |
Roberto Cassada is the latest arrival in a complacent Air Force squadron in Cold War Germany. His Puerto Rican birth and unabashed ambition alienate him from the tightly-knit group of men he joins. He struggles to prove his superiority as a pilot on routine flying procedures - leading to tragedy. |
| Synopsis: |
A tragic and passionate portrayal of human conflict. Obscured by low, brooding clouds, two lost planes drift ominously beyond their landing strip and over the heads of the men below. A former enlisted man fresh out of flying school, Lieutenant Roberto Cassada is the latest arrival in a complacent Air Force squadron in Cold War Germany. From the outset, several characteristics alienate Cassada from the tightly-knit group of men he joins: his mysterious reticence, his Puerto Rican birth, and - most damning of all - his unabashed ambition. In the absence of warfare, Cassada struggles to prove his superiority as a pilot on routine flying procedures, one of which leads to the tragedy at the centre of the novel. Cassada is a reworked version of Salter's The Arm of Flesh, originally published in 1961. Brilliantly paced and deeply haunting, this is a novel that explores the tensions of a group of fighter pilots in conflict with themselves and each other as much as with any enemy. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
The Harvill Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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