A Sport And A Pastime James Salter by James Salter 9780374530501, 0374530505 instant download after payment.

The astonishing novel and “tour de force” about a love affair in postwar France from the iconic author of All That Is (The New York Times Book Review). 

Twenty-year-old Yale dropout Phillip Dean is travelling Europe aimlessly in a borrowed car with little money. When he stops for a few days in a church-quiet town near Dijon, he meets Anne-Marie Costallat, a young shop assistant. The two begin an affair both carnal and innocent, and she quickly becomes to him the real France, its beating heart and an object of pure longing. 

Set in provincial France in the 1960s, 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.

James Salter, author of Light Years and the memoir Burning The Days, was an essential voice in the evolution of late twentieth-century prose, a stylist on par with Updike and Roth who won the PEN/Faulkner Award for his collection Dusk and Other Stories. 

"Salter, who did earlier books, one dealing with the mystique of flight, now transfers to the fever of the flesh in what is as erotic a novel as any since Henry Miller even where it is as lyrical as it is lubricious... But what is most seductive about the book actually are Salter's descriptions of France around Dijon and Nancy (and sometimes Paris), dusty towns, courts, cafes, cemeteries, changeless and inviolable."  -  Kirkus Reviews

Beautiful and haunting, A Sport and A Pastime is one of the first great American novels to speak frankly of human desire and the yearning for passion free of guilt and shame, inspiring Reynolds Price to call it “as nearly perfect as any American fiction I know.”

This ebook edition features an illustrated biography of James Salter including rare photos from the author’s