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A Sport and a Pastime: Picador Classic
James Salter
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Description for A Sport and a Pastime: Picador Classic
Paperback. Series: Picador Classic. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FRD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 19. Weight in Grams: 192.
With an introduction by Sarah Hall
The 1960s. Philip Dean, a footloose Yale dropout, is touring provincial France and sometimes Paris in a borrowed, once elegant car. He begins a mismatched affair with a young shop girl named Anne-Marie. Together they burn in an everyday but stunningly sensual paradise.
A Sport and A Pastime is a seductive classic that established James Salter's reputation as one of the finest writers of our time. It is remarkable for its eroticism, its luminous prose and its ability to explore the boundaries between what is dreamt and what is lived, between ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Series
Picador Classic
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781509823314
SKU
V9781509823314
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About James Salter
James Salter is the author of the novels Solo Faces, Light Years, A Sport and a Pastime, The Arm of Flesh (revised as Cassada), The Hunters and All That Is; the memoirs Gods of Tin and Burning the Days; and two collections of short stories, Dusk and Other Stories (which won the 1989 PEN/Faulkner Award), and Last Night. He ... Read more
Reviews for A Sport and a Pastime: Picador Classic
A great literary novel but also the most erotic book ever written
Jonathan Dee
Financial Times
'A Sport and a Pastime . . . Slender, cynical and bruisingly sexy, the novel represents the first full flowering of [Salter's] mature style; his exquisite sentences and extraordinary evocation of place. Daily Telegraph 'Now deemed canonical . . . A ... Read more
Jonathan Dee
Financial Times
'A Sport and a Pastime . . . Slender, cynical and bruisingly sexy, the novel represents the first full flowering of [Salter's] mature style; his exquisite sentences and extraordinary evocation of place. Daily Telegraph 'Now deemed canonical . . . A ... Read more