A Sport and a Pastime
23 February 2017Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
With an introduction by Sarah Hall
The 1960s. Philip Dean, a footloose Yale dropout, is touring provincial France and sometimes Paris in a borrowed, once elegant car. He begins a mismatched affair with a young shop girl named Anne-Marie. Together they burn in an everyday but stunningly sensual paradise.
A Sport and A Pastime is a seductive classic that established James...
Details
23 February 2017224 pages
9781509823314Imprint: Picador
Reviews
A great literary novel but also the most erotic book ever writtenJonathan Dee, Financial Times
'A Sport and a Pastime . . . Slender, cynical and bruisingly sexy, the novel represents the first full flowering of [Salter's] mature style; his exquisite sentences and extraordinary evocation of place. Daily Telegraph
'Now deemed canonical . . . A Sport and a Pastime [is] still one of the most intensely honest books about sexual passion.' Sunday Times
A tour de force of erotic realism, a romantic cliffhangerNew York Times
