num_pages: 290
description: An extraordinary literary event a major new novel by the PEN/Faulkner winner and acclaimed master: a sweeping seductive deeply moving story set in the years after World War II.From his experiences as a naval officer in battles off Okinawa during World War II Philip Bowman returns to America and finds a position as a book editor. It was a time when publishing was still a private affair - a scattered family of small houses here and in Europe - a time of gatherings in fabled apartments parties into the night. It is a world in which to immerse himself a world of intimate connections and surprising triumphs. But the deal that Philip cannot seem to close is love: one marriage goes bad; another fails to happen; and finally he meets a woman who enthralls then betrays him setting him on a course he could never have imagined for himself. Written with Salter's signature economy of prose All That Is fiercely fluidly explores a life unfolding in a world on the brink of change: a dazzling sometimes devastating labyrinth of love and ambition of the small shocks and grand pleasures of being alive.
language: English
title: All That Is
publisher: Knopf