{"product_id":"9780374530501","title":"A Sport and a Pastime : A Novel","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eA Sport and a Pastime\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): James Salter\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"As nearly perfect as any American fiction I know,\" is how Reynolds Price (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e) 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, James Salter's \u003ci\u003eA Sport and a Pastime\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\"A  tour de force of erotic realism, a romantic cliff-hanger; an opaline vision  of Americans in France . . . \u003ci\u003eA Sport and a Pastime\u003c\/i\u003e succeeds as art must. It tells us about ourselves.\" -\u003ci\u003e New York Times Book Review  \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9780374530501\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40652257689806,"sku":"9780374530501","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_492c90a4-3fe9-44d0-81e0-30176d3e968a.jpg?v=1643189956","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9780374530501","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}