This exquisite, resonant novel by PEN/Faulkner winner James Salter is a
brilliant portrait of a marriage by a contemporary American master. It
is the story of Nedra and Viri, whose favored life is centered around
dinners, ingenious games with their children, enviable friends, and
near-perfect days passed skating on a frozen river or sunning on the
beach. But even as he lingers over the surface of their marriage, Salter
lets us see the fine cracks that are spreading through it, flaws that
will eventually mar the lovely picture beyond repair. Seductive, witty,
and elegantly nuanced, Light Years is a classic novel of an entire
generation that discovered the limits of its own happiness--and then
felt compelled to destroy it.