All That Is (39 page)

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.

Other titles by James Salter available in eBook format

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

For more information, please visit
www.aaknopf.com

FICTION
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

NONFICTION
Life Is Meals: A Food Lover’s Book of Days
(with Kay Salter)
There and Then
Gods of Tin
Burning the Days