
"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...




Recounts a love affair between Anne-Marie Costallat, a village shopgirl in France, and Philip Dean, a Yale dropout.


Revised

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"A Sport and a Pastime is as nearly perfect as any American fiction I know," Reynolds Price wrote of James Salter's 1967 novel that tells of the mismatched love affair between Phillip Dean, a Yale dropout adrift in Europe, and Anne-Marie Costallat, a young French shopgirl. An...



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Now reissued with a new introduction by award-winning poet Reynolds Price, A Sport and a Pastime is a modern classic--a bitter love story set in the French countryside--by a writer who helped define American prose style for a generation of writers and readers....
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