A Sport and a Pastime

"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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 08/22/2006
ISBN: 9780374530501
Pages: 185
Weight: 0.41lbs
Size: 8.28h x 5.54w x 0.55d

Review Citations: Entertainment Weekly 04/06/2007 pg. 81