In a small French town in the 1950s, a Yale dropout has an affair with a pretty local shop girl, imagined in every erotic detail by a solitary compatriot. James Salter is the author of "The Hunters", "The Arm of Flesh", "Burning the Days", "Light Years", "Solo Faces" and "'Dusk' and Other Stories".
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In a small French town in the 1950s, a Yale dropout has an affair with a pretty local shop girl, imagined in every erotic detail by a solitary compatriot. James Salter is the author of "The Hunters", "The Arm of Flesh", "Burning the Days", "Light Years", "Solo Faces" and "'Dusk' and Other Stories".
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Add this copy of Sport and a Pastime (Panther S) to cart. $19.74, good condition, Sold by BooksRun rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Philadelphia, PA, UNITED STATES, published 1997 by Harvill Press.
Add this copy of Sport and a Pastime to cart. $22.37, very good condition, Sold by Prior Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Cheltenham, GLOUCESTERSHIRE, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1997 by Harvill Press.
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Very Good. Size: 7x5x0; A very good copy, square and tight with no rips or splits, just a trifle rubbed. Contents sound and clean, not showing any pen-marks. Not from a library so no such stamps or labels. Thus a tidy book in presentable condition.
this novel echoes the best of ernest hemingway and henry miller without imitating either. it also creates an erotic fantasy that seems absolutely rooted in the minutae of ordinary relationships. but these are lesser qualities compared to what a sport and a pastime does to celebrate provincial france. that is where the real love story exists, within the quiet french countryside that salter evokes with a closely observed reverence for delail that utterly separates his geography from the rest of the world. i honestly don't know another piece of fiction that does this so beautifully and effortlessly, making salter's jewel a work with nothing quite like it.
