A sport and a pastime
Salter, James2017
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A Yale dropout has an affair with a pretty local shop girl in a small French town in the 1950s. The unnamed narrator recounts all the erotic details he imagines in such a way that the reader is convinced of the reality of his fantasies. With an introduction by Sarah HallThe 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 body and soul.
Main title:
A sport and a pastime / James Salter.
Author:
Salter, James, author
Work:
Imprint:
London : Picador, 2017.
Collation:
256 pages ; 20 cm.
Series title:
Picador classic ; 51.
Notes:
Originally published: New York: Doubleday, 1967.
ISBN:
9781509823314 (pbk)9781509823321 (ePub ebook)
Dewey class:
813.54
LC class:
PS3569.A4622
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
561551