A Sport and a Pastime
Series: Picador classicPublication details: England; Picador; 2017Edition: Picador Classic edDescription: 197 Pages; PaperbackISBN:- 9781509823314
- 813.54
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Book Adult and Young Adult 15-17 | Karachi Classics | 813.54 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | PKLC023381 | ||
Book Adult and Young Adult 15-17 | Lahore Adult Fiction | 813.54 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | PKLC021826 |
Twenty-year-old Yale dropout Phillip Dean is traveling 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. 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. One of the first great American novels to speak frankly of human desire free of guilt and shame, A Sport and a Pastime inspired Reynolds Price to call it nearly perfect as any American fiction I know.
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