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A Sport and a Pastime

3.7/5 ( ratings)

"As nearly perfect as any American fiction I know," is how Reynolds Price described this classic that has been a favorite of readers, both here and in Europe, for almost forty years. Set in provincial France in the 1960s, it 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 bright with a rare intensity.

Language: English

Pages: 185

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Release: August 22, 2006

ISBN: 0374530505

ISBN 13: 9780374530501

A Sport and a Pastime

3.7/5 ( ratings)

"As nearly perfect as any American fiction I know," is how Reynolds Price described this classic that has been a favorite of readers, both here and in Europe, for almost forty years. Set in provincial France in the 1960s, it 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 bright with a rare intensity.

Language: English

Pages: 185

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Release: August 22, 2006

ISBN: 0374530505

ISBN 13: 9780374530501

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