A Sport and a Pastime

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Publication Year:
2012

ISBN-13: 9781453243817

<DIV><B>The astonishing novel and &ldquo;tour de force&rdquo; about a love affair in postwar France from the iconic author of <I>All That Is </I>(<I>The </I><I>New York Times Book Review</I>)<I>.</I></B><BR /><BR /> Twenty-year-old Yale dropout Phillip Dean is traveling Europe aimlessly in a borrowed car with little money. When he stops for a few days in a church-quiet town near Dijon, he meets Anne-Marie Costallat, a young shop assistant. The two begin an affair both carnal and innocent, and she quickly becomes to him the real France, its beating heart and an object of pure longing.<BR /> &#160;<BR /> James Salter, author of <I>Light Years</I> and the memoir <I>Burning the Days</I>, was an essential voice in the evolution of late twentieth-century prose, a stylist on par with Updike and Roth who won the PEN/Faulkner Award for his collection <I>Dusk and Other Stories</I>. One of the first great American novels to speak frankly of human desire free of guilt and shame, <I>A Sport and a Pastime</I> inspired Reynolds Price to call it &ldquo;as nearly perfect as any American fiction I know.&rdquo;<BR /> &#160;<BR /><I>This ebook edition features an illustrated biography of James Salter including rare photos from the author&rsquo;s personal collection.</I><BR /> &#160;</DIV>