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  • Solo Faces

  • A Novel
  • By: James Salter
  • Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
  • Length: 6 hrs and 23 mins
  • 4.4 out of 5 stars (5 ratings)

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By: James Salter
Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
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Summary

Vernon Rand is a charismatic figure whose great love - whose life, in fact - is climbing. He lives alone in California, where he combats the drudgery of a roofing job with the thrill of climbing in the nearby mountain ranges. Sure of only his talent and nerve, Rand decides to test himself in the French Alps, with their true mountaineering and famed, fearsome peaks. He soon learns that the most perilous moments are, for him, the moments when he feels truly alive.

One of the great novels of the outdoors, Solo Faces is as thrilling, beautiful, and immediate as the Alpine peaks that have enthralled climbers for centuries.
©1979 James Salter (P)2015 Audible Inc.
Action & Adventure Alps Fiction Literary Fiction Sports Sports & Outdoors Outdoor
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"Solo Faces contrasts a devotion to mountain climbing with the earthbound tugs of love and ordinary life... A beautifully composed book that will remind readers of Camus and Saint-Exupry. It exemplifies the purity it describes." (The Washington Post)

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as a climber I was hoping for more reality

as a climber I was hoping for more reality about the challenge of true rock climbing in that part of the world.

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