A Sport and a Pastime - Paperback
by James Salter
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Availability:In StockContributor:James Salter, Reynolds Price (Introduction by)Series:FSG ClassicsPublish date:2006-08-22Pages:208
Language:EnglishPublisher:Farrar, Straus and GirouxISBN-13:9780374530501ISBN-10:374530505UPC:9780374530501Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, World LiteratureBook Topic:AmericanSize:8.28 x 5.54 x 0.55 inchesWeight:0.4101Product ID:SCTXP1SXXN
A Sport and a Pastime
"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...
Series: FSG Classics
Language:EnglishPublisher:Farrar, Straus and GirouxISBN-13:9780374530501ISBN-10:374530505UPC:9780374530501Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, World LiteratureBook Topic:AmericanSize:8.28 x 5.54 x 0.55 inchesWeight:0.4101Product ID:SCTXP1SXXN
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...
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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