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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). Twenty-year-old Yale dropout Phillip Dean is travelling 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. Set in provincial France in the 1960s, 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.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. "Salter, who did earlier books, one dealing with the mystique of flight, now transfers to the fever of the flesh in what is as e

Who reads A Sport and a Pastime?

Author

James Salter, James Salter

Publisher

ePubLibre

Published

1967

Language

EN

ISBN

9781447240501

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Classics

Rating

3.71 / 5 (41 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14