“But of course, in one sense, Dean never died - his existence is superior to such accidents. One must have heroes, which is to say, one must create them. And they become real through our envy...”
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Philip Dean, a gifted Yale dropout, has an affair with a girl in a small French town in the 1950s. His compatriot, with whom he is staying, imagines their relationship in detail. As the narrator's reality recedes, so his fantasy of the relationship becomes hauntingly, overwhelmingly real.
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James Salter
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