A Sport and a Pastime - Brossura

Salter, James

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1447240502 ISBN 13: 9781447240501

Casa editrice: Pan Macmillan, 2014

Riassunto

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 established James Salter's reputation as one of the finest writers of our time. It is remarkable for its eroticism, its luminous prose and its ability to explore the boundaries between what is dreamt and what is lived, between body and soul.

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Recensione:

A great literary novel but also the most erotic book ever written (Jonathan 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 cliffhanger (New York Times)

He has written three books that everyone should read before they die: A Sport and a Pastime, Light Years, and his recollections, Burning the Days (Independent)

'Two of his previous novels [including] A Sport and a Pastime, from 1967, are regarded as classics . . . The writer Reynolds Price also thought A Sport and a Pastime "perfect",' Irish Times

One of the finest American writers of his mighty generation (Esquire)

He has written three books that everyone should read before they die: A Sport and a Pastime, Light Years and his recollections, Burning the Days (Independent)

Salter is the contemporary writer most admired and envied by other writers . . . He can, when he wants, break your heart with a sentence (Washington Post)

A Sport and a Pastime is as nearly perfect as any American fiction I know (Reynolds Price)

Descrizione del libro:

The seductive classic that established Salter's reputation as one of the finest prose stylists of our time

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• Editore: Pan Macmillan
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1447240502
• ISBN 13: 9781447240501
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 195