"Extraordinary . . . at once tender, exultant, unabashedly sexual, sensual, and profoundly sad.
Light Years is a masterpiece."
–Elizabeth Benedict,
Philadelphia Inquirer "Remarkable. . . . Salter celebrates the silver-and-golden bitterness of life.
Light Years . . . becomes an unexpectedly moving ode to beautiful lives frayed by time."
–James Wolcott,
Esquire "[A] twentieth-century masterpiece. At once iridescent, lyrical, mystical and magnetic."
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Bloomsbury Review "An absolutely beautiful, monstrous, important book."
–Joy Williams