A Sport and a Pastime: A Novel (Picador Modern Classics)
Current price:
$18.90
Publication Date: August 22nd, 2006
Publisher:
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN:
9780374530501
Pages:
208
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Description
"As nearly perfect as any American fiction I know," is how Reynolds Price (The New York Times) described this classic that has been a favorite of readers, both here and in Europe, for almost forty years. Set in provincial France in the 1960s, James Salter's A Sport and a Pastime is the intensely carnal story—part shocking reality, part feverish dream —of a love affair between a footloose Yale dropout and a young French girl. There is the seen and the unseen—and pages that burn with a rare intensity.
Praise for A Sport and a Pastime: A Novel (Picador Modern Classics)
"A tour de force of erotic realism, a romantic cliff-hanger; an opaline vision of Americans in France . . . A Sport and a Pastime succeeds as art must. It tells us about ourselves." - New York Times Book Review
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