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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 storypart 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 unseenand pages that burn with a rare intensity.

A Sport and a Pastime FSG Classics

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    A Paperback / softback by James Salter, Reynolds Price

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      Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 22/08/2006
      ISBN13: 9780374530501, 978-0374530501
      ISBN10: 0374530505

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      Book Synopsis
      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 storypart 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 unseenand pages that burn with a rare intensity.

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