Product Description 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."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 decades. Set in provincial France in the 1960s, PEN/Faulkner Award-winning author James Salter's 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. Review "A tour de force of erotic realism, a romantic cliff-hanger; an opaline vision of Americans in France . . .A Sport and a Pastime succeeds as art must. It tells us about ourselves." - New York Times Book Review About the Author James Salter was the celebrated author of six novels (The Hunters, 1957;The Arm of Flesh, 1961;A Sport and a Pastime, 1967;Light Years, 1975;Solo Faces, 1979; andAll That Is, 2013) and three books of stories (Dusk and Other Stories, 1988;Last Night, 2005; andCollected Stories, 2013), as well a memoir,Burning the Days (1997). He also had a successful Hollywood career, most notably as the screenwriter ofDownhill Racer (1969). Born in New Jersey in 1926 and raised in New York City, he attended West Point during World War II and served as an officer and a fighter pilot in the U.S. Air Force from 1945 to 1957. He drew on his combat experiences in Korea for his first two novels, though it was not until the controversial but now-classicA Sport and a Pastime that he considered that he had come close to measuring up to his own standards. He was a recipient of the 1989 PEN/Faulkner Award and the 2012 PEN/Malamud Award. He died in Sag Harbor, New York, in 2015.
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A Sport and a Pastime: A Novel (Picador Modern Classics)
von James Salter
Product Description 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."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 decades. Set in provincial France in the 1960s, PEN/Faulkner Award-winning author James Salter's 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. Review "A tour de force of erotic realism, a romantic cliff-hanger; an opaline vision of Americans in France . . .A Sport and a Pastime succeeds as art must. It tells us about ourselves." - New York Times Book Review About the Author James Salter was the celebrated author of six novels (The Hunters, 1957;The Arm of Flesh, 1961;A Sport and a Pastime, 1967;Light Years, 1975;Solo Faces, 1979; andAll That Is, 2013) and three books of stories (Dusk and Other Stories, 1988;Last Night, 2005; andCollected Stories, 2013), as well a memoir,Burning the Days (1997). He also had a successful Hollywood career, most notably as the screenwriter ofDownhill Racer (1969). Born in New Jersey in 1926 and raised in New York City, he attended West Point during World War II and served as an officer and a fighter pilot in the U.S. Air Force from 1945 to 1957. He drew on his combat experiences in Korea for his first two novels, though it was not until the controversial but now-classicA Sport and a Pastime that he considered that he had come close to measuring up to his own standards. He was a recipient of the 1989 PEN/Faulkner Award and the 2012 PEN/Malamud Award. He died in Sag Harbor, New York, in 2015.
Aktuelle Rezensionen(1)
Rezension von kalinskaHe wrote like someone who knows exactly how good they look. Salter understood that people dont fall in love with plots. They fall in love with sentences. Its unsettling, and very human. Disguised as erotica. Hiding imbalance that's itchy to read. She, however he romanticizing it, is just an atmosphere. And atmosphere is an atmosphere.