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A Sport and a Pastime
A Literary Fiction Novel by James Salter
Subgenres:
- Romantic Fiction,
- Postwar France,
- Erotic Romance
This book is for you if you're into...
- Moody French settings that feel both intimate and cinematic
- Love affairs where longing and sensuality drive every page
The astonishing novel about a love affair in postwar France from the iconic author of All That Is. 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.
James Salter, author of Light Years and the memoir Burning the Days, 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 Dusk and Other Stories.
One of the first great American novels to speak frankly of human desire free of guilt and shame, A Sport and a Pastime is as nearly perfect as any American fiction.
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