A Sport and a Pastime : Paperback : Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc : 9780374530501 : 0374530505 : 22 Aug 2006 : "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 storyÂ?part shocking reality, part feverish dream Â?of a love affair between a footloose Yale dropout and a young French girl. There is the seen and the unseenÂ?and pages that burn with a rare intensity..."
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