A Sport and a Pastime

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ISBN-10: 0374530505
ISBN-13: 9780374530501
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publish Date: 08/22/2006
Dimensions: 8.28" L, 5.54" W, 0.55" H

A Sport and a Pastime

byJames Salter
Introduction by: Reynolds Price

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Price: $17.00

Overview

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.

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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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Details

ISBN-10: 0374530505
ISBN-13: 9780374530501
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publish Date: 08/22/2006
Dimensions: 8.28" L, 5.54" W, 0.55" H
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