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Violence
None
No violence
Language
Barely any
Mild profanity
Sexual Content
A lot
Multiple sexual relationships depicted with Salter's characteristic sensuous explicitness; erotic writing is a deliberate feature of his style
Substance Use
Barely any
Social drinking in publishing milieu
Emotional Intensity
Some
Loss, aging, and the emotional shape of a life; some melancholy but not psychologically disturbing
What this book is about
Philip Bowman returns from Pacific combat to build a career as a New York literary editor. His life unfolds through a series of love affairs — with women who define and disappoint him — as the literary world of mid-20th century Manhattan changes around him. Salter's final novel is elegiac, sensuous, and spare, covering fifty years of one man's emotional life with the precision he brought to everything he wrote.
Notes for sensitive readers
Reader-flagged moments and themes that may affect your experience.
Explicit sexual content across multiple affairs
An act of calculated romantic revenge
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