A Sport and a Pastime
Author(s): James Salter
"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, it 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. First published 1967,
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- : Farrar Straus & Giroux Inc
- : Farrar Straus & Giroux Inc
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- : James Salter
- : Paperback