A Sport and a Pastime

About this book

"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.

Details

Format

Paperback

ISBN-13

9780374530501

Publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published

August 22, 2006

Pages

208

Weight

6.6 oz

Subject

Fiction