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gods of tin also by james salter The Hunters ASport and a Pastime Cassada Light Years Solo Faces Dusk and Other Stories Burning the Days GODS OF TIN n The Flying Years JAMES SALTER m edited and selected by Jessica Benton and William Benton S & H Shoemaker & Hoard Washington, D.C. Copyright © 2004 by James Salter All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission from the Publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Salter, James. Gods of tin : the flying years / James Salter ; edited and selected by Jessica Benton and William Benton. isbn1–59376–006-x p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Salter, James—Diaries. 2. Air pilots, Military—United States—Anecdotes. 3. Korean war, 1950–1953—Aerial operations—Anecdotes. I. Benton, Jes- sica. II. Benton, William, 1939– III. Title. tl540.s183a3 2004 813'.54—dc22 2004011664 Book design by Mark McGarry, Texas Type & Book Works Set in Requiem Printed in the United States of America S & H Shoemaker Hoard ADivision of Avalon Publishing Group Inc. Distributed by Publishers Group West 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 gods of tin the flying years FOREWORD James Salter is one of the important writers of our time. He is the author of six novels, among them Light Years,and ASport and a Pastimewhich was selected as a title in The Modern Library in 1995. His collection of short stories, Dusk, won the Pen/ Faulkner Award in 1998, and in 2000 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Yet before he was a novelist, he was a fighter pilot in the Air Force, a graduate of West Point who flew over one hundred missions during the Korean War. In his memoir Burning the Days(1997), he describes thedifficultdecision to resign from the militaryinmidcareer and begin another life. “It was in me like a pathogen—the idea of being a writer.” But the pathogen—or passion—of flying is no less ineradicable in the literaryman. The courage, risk, and
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