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Overview
"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.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9780374530501
- ISBN-10: 0374530505
- Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Publish Date: August 2006
- Dimensions: 8.28 x 5.54 x 0.55 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.41 pounds
- Page Count: 208
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