Salter, who died last year at 90, is often referred to as a ‘writer’s writer’.  Never a best seller, he is referred to in a book cover blurb as ‘the contemporary fiction writer whom other practitioners of the art hold in the highest esteem.”  I’ve read and enjoyed two of his novels and one collection of short stories, and this latest edition is quite as wonderful.  Stories of love, lust, obsession, loss, and all the other variations of romantic attachment are painted with quick brush strokes evoking mood, character, and emotion powerfully. Salter must have been a romantic, sensual, and sexually potent force.   I look forward to reading the rest of his oeuvre.