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  • A Sport and a Pastime

  • By: James Salter
  • Narrated by: Jeff Woodman
  • Length: 6 hrs and 32 mins
  • 3.9 out of 5 stars (22 ratings)

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A Sport and a Pastime

By: James Salter
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Summary

"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 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 with a rare intensity.

©1967 James Salter (P)2013 Audible Inc.
  • Unabridged Audiobook
  • Categories: Erotica
Classics Coming of Age Fiction Literary Fiction Literature & Fiction France
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Peotic and lustful

I found the narration annoying at times with the French accents, would have been better without.

The first few chapters are a little dry... but you have to give this style some time to work on you.

Deeper into the story the beautiful writing tells a vintage 50mm film camera story, in true shoe gazing, explicit and vouyeristic fashion. Lustful in a genuine sense (not at all cheapened) all the while it's true narrative being hidden until the end, delivered in an abrupt fashion.

I really enjoy this book less for its narrative, more for its aesthetic fell. That said, its end narrative was meaningful and moving.

I really liked it!

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