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Salter's subject is human desire in its many manifestations: erotic longing, jealousy, ambition, curiosity, obsession, the needs to triumph, to achieve perfection, to experience life, to be loved, to merely belong.
Salter regards The Hunters, and his second Air Force novel, The Arm of Flesh (1961), as stages in a literary apprenticeship that culminated in his first important novel, A Sport and a Pastime (1967).
James Salter is the master of a mandarin style that is not a whit less virile for being exquisite.
Salter was chosen to be the butt of the prank because she was the only officer of the W.C.T.U. who was eligible for office, the others living outside the town limits.
Salter when it stated that "this evidence is corroborated by every individual who has had an opportunity to base his judgment on a personal observation of the conduct of her administration." The Rushville (Ind.) Republican, August 18, 1887, carried a brief article on Mrs.
Salter stating that she "is said to discharge the duties of her office in the most acceptable manner." Another paper wrote that she "is having a very successful administration.