A Sport and a Pastime
Picador Classic
Certain things I remember exactly as they were. They are merely discolored a bit by time, like coins in the pocket of a forgotten suit.In 1960s France, two men meet and become friends. One of them is Philip Dean, a footloose Yale dropout, arrived to tour provincial France and Paris in a borrowed, once elegant car. When Dean meets Anne-Marie, a young shop girl, they begin a feverish love affair. The other man, our unnamed narrator, can only look on, tell their story, and imagine their sensual paradise.First published in 1967, A Sport and a Pastime established James Salter's reputation as one of the finest writers of his time, and this book as…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-5098-2331-4
- EAN: 9781509823314
- Produktnummer: 21681937
- Verlag: Pan macmillan Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 256 S.
- Ausstattung: B-Format Paperback
- Masse: H19.8 cm x B13.1 cm x D1.5 cm 190 g
- Reihenbandnummer: 51
- Gewicht: 190
- Sonstiges: Ab 18 J.
Über den Autor
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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