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A Sport and a Pastime: A Novel: Open Road

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A Sport and a Pastime: A Novel: Open Road

â€œA tour de force of erotic realism, a romantic cliff-hanger; an opaline vision of Americans in France. . . . A Sport and a PastimeÂ succeeds as art must. It tells us about ourselves.â€Â â€”The New York Times Book Review
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Twenty-year-old Yale dropout Phillip Dean is traveling Europe aimlessly in a borrowed car with little money, until stopping for a few days in a church-quiet town near Dijon, where he meets Anne-Marie Costallat, a young shop assistant. She quickly becomes to him the real France, its beating heart and an object of pure longing. The two begin an affair both carnal and innocent.
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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.
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This ebook features an illustrated biography of James Salter including rare photos from the authorâ€™s personal collection.
Country USA
Manufacturer Open Road Media
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2012-06-05
Format Kindle eBook

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