Salter Hailed By The New York Times For Creating a Novel “As Nearly Perfect as any American Fiction” and By John Irving For Writing “Rare and Stunning” Prose
(New York, NY, June 5th) Open Road Integrated Media, a digital publisher and multimedia content company, announced today that it will be bringing two of James Salter’s critically acclaimed novels to E for the first time. Open Road will digitally publish and market A Sport and a Pastime as part of its Iconic Books imprint and will also publish Salter’s classic work about the outdoors, Solo Faces.
Richard Ford said that “sentence for sentence, Salter is the master” and John Irving called Solo Faces “compelling, sad, wise, and kindhearted.”
Jane Friedman, co-founder and CEO of Open Road says: “I have long admired each and every book James Salter has written. He is truly an iconic writer and these two titles fit in perfectly with the founding mission of Open Road – to bring authors and their works to a new generation of readers on E.”
The ebooks will include an illustrated biography featuring never before seen photos. Open Road will produce marketing videos about Salter and his work which will be syndicated to content partners. Open Road is collaborating with Sandy Gotham Meehan from Checkerboard Films who directed and produced the documentary James Salter: A Sport and A Pastime, which traces Salter’s lifelong love affair with France. Meehan is working with Open Road’s production and marketing team to compile and distribute archival material on Salter.
James Salter is a novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter. He grew up in New York City and was a career officer and Air Force pilot until his mid-thirties, when the success of his first novel (The Hunters, 1957) led to his fulltime writing career. Salter’s potent, lyrical prose has earned him acclaim from critics, readers, and fellow novelists. He lives in New York with his family.
About Open Road Integrated Media
Open Road Integrated Media is a digital publisher and multimedia content company. Open Road creates connections between authors and their audiences by marketing its ebooks through a new proprietary online platform, which uses premium video content and social media. Open Road has published ebooks from legendary authors including William Styron, Pat Conroy, Alice Walker and Virginia Hamilton.
