Ebook {Epub PDF} A Sport and a Pastime by James Salter

A Sport and a Pastime by James Salter. First Edition, hardcover, pages, ISBN: Very rare, valuable First Edition. As nearly perfect as any American fiction I know, is how Reynolds . James Salter. A Sport and a Pastime. “A tour de force of erotic realism, a romantic cliff-hanger; an opaline vision of Americans in France. A Sport and a Pastime succeeds as art must. It tells us . A Sport and a Pastime: A Novel: Open Road - Kindle edition by Salter, James. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and /5().

A Sport and a Pastime: A Novel - Ebook written by James Salter. Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read A Sport and a Pastime: A Novel. The s. 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 established James Salter's reputation as one of the. 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,. The astonishing novel and "tour de force" about a love affair in postwar France from the iconic author of All That Is (The New York Times Book Review).

James Salter is one of those authors I had only ever heard good things about, so when I found A Sport and a Pastime in my local second-hand store (I live a few doors down from Elizabeth’s Bookshop in Fremantle), I couldn’t resist buying it. First published in , it tells the story of a love affair between an American college dropout and a French shop girl, who go on a road trip across France in the late s. A Sport and a Pastime is about a young college dropout’s love affair with a beautiful French girl. The story is told from the perspective of the young man’s slightly jealous friend. The narrator did not actually witness any of these events, but is simply imaging what he thinks happened. The plot is a little slow. Salter’s potent, lyrical prose earned him acclaim from critics, readers, and fellow novelists. His novel A Sport and a Pastime () was hailed by the New York Times as “nearly perfect as any American fiction.”.