James Salter is (was) an impressive technical writer and this collection of short stories, Last Night, certainly bears this out. But the writing here, and much of his writing, is so marred by misogyny and just casual disregard of women as anything else but a) sexual playthings of men and b) some post or ladder that a man uses to further his own goals and/or achievements, that the collection is spoiled.
There is little reason to read them.
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