A Sport and a Pastime

By James Salter

Category: ['Categories:', 'Contemporary Fiction']

ISBN: 9780374530501

Rating: 3.68 (8523 reviews)

Price: $30.21

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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.