A Sport and a Pastime by Salter, James
A Sport and a Pastime by Salter, James

A Sport and a Pastime

As nearly perfect as any American fiction I know, is how Reynolds Price (The New York Times)...
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Author: James Salter
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A Sport and a Pastime by Salter, James

A Sport and a Pastime

$164.37
A Sport and a Pastime by Salter, James

A Sport and a Pastime

$164.37
Author: James Salter
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
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 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.

Author: James Salter
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 08/22/2006
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.41lbs
Size: 8.28h x 5.54w x 0.55d
ISBN: 9780374530501


Review Citation(s):
Entertainment Weekly 04/06/2007 pg. 81

About the Author
James Salter was the celebrated author of six novels (The Hunters, 1957; The Arm of Flesh, 1961; A Sport and a Pastime, 1967; Light Years, 1975; Solo Faces, 1979; and All That Is, 2013) and three books of stories (Dusk and Other Stories, 1988; Last Night, 2005; and Collected Stories, 2013), as well a memoir, Burning the Days (1997). He also had a successful Hollywood career, most notably as the screenwriter of Downhill Racer (1969). Born in New Jersey in 1926 and raised in New York City, he attended West Point during World War II and served as an officer and a fighter pilot in the U.S. Air Force from 1945 to 1957. He drew on his combat experiences in Korea for his first two novels, though it was not until the controversial but now-classic A Sport and a Pastime that he considered that he had come close to measuring up to his own standards. He was a recipient of the 1989 PEN/Faulkner Award and the 2012 PEN/Malamud Award. He died in Sag Harbor, New York, in 2015.
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