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A Sport and a Pastime
Series: Picador Collection
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'One of the finest American writers of his mighty generation' - Esquire 'A tour de force of erotic realism, a romantic cliffhanger' - The New York Times The 1960s. Philip Dean, a footloose Yale dropout, is touring provincial France and sometimes Paris in a borrowed, once...
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A Sport and a Pastime
The seductive classic that established Salter’s reputation as one of the finest prose writers of our time.
The seductive classic that established Salter's reputation as one of the finest prose stylists of our time Now part of the Picador Collection.
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'One of the finest American writers of his mighty generation' - Esquire
'A tour de force of erotic realism, a romantic cliffhanger' - The New York Times
The 1960s. Philip Dean, a footloose Yale dropout, is touring provincial France and sometimes Paris in a borrowed, once elegant car. He begins a mismatched affair with a young shop girl named Anne-Marie. Together they burn in an everyday but stunningly sensual paradise.
A Sport and a Pastime is a seductive classic that established James Salter's reputation as one of the finest writers of our time. It is remarkable for its eroticism, its luminous prose and its ability to explore the boundaries between what is dreamt and what is lived, between body and soul.
Part of the Picador Collection
Series: Picador Collection
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781035063734
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 04 September 2025
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Picador
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 130.0mm
Height: 197.0mm
Weight: 150g
Pages: 208
About the Author
James Salter is the author of the novels Solo Faces, Light Years, A Sport and a Pastime, The Arm of Flesh (revised as Cassada), The Hunters and All That Is; the memoirs Gods of Tin and Burning the Days; and two collections of short stories, Dusk and Other Stories (which won the 1989 PEN/Faulkner Award), and Last Night. He died in 2015 at the age of ninety.
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