A Sport and a Pastime
- Auteur: James Salter (Verenigde Staten)
- Soort boek: Amerikaanse roman uit 1967
- Eerste uitgever: Doubleday
- Huidige uitgever: Picador
- Verschijnt: 4 september 2025
- Omvang: 208 pagina’s
- Uitgave: paperback / ebook
- Nederlandse vertaling: Spel en tijdverdrijf
- Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris
James Salter A Sport and a Pastime review, recensie
- “The astonishing novel and tour de force about a love affair in postwar France from the iconic author.” (The New York Times Book Review)
- “Nearly as perfect as any American fiction I know.” (Reynolds Price)
- “One of the finest American writers of his mighty generation.” (Esquire)
- “A tour de force of erotic realism, a romantic cliffhanger.” (The New York 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.” (The Daily Telegraph)
- “Now deemed canonical … A Sport and a Pastime [is] still one of the most intensely honest books about sexual passion.” (The Sunday Times)
Flaptekst van de roman van James Salter uit 1967
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 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.
James Salter was born 10 June 1925 in Passaic, New Jersey in the United States. He is the author of numerous books, including the novels: Solo Faces, Light Years, A Sport and a Pastime, The Arm of Flesh (revised as Cassada), and The Hunters; the memoirs Gods of Tin and Burning the Days; the collections Dusk and Other Stories, which won the 1989 PEN/Faulkner Award, and Last Night, which won the Rea Award for the Short Story and the PEN/Malamud Award; and Life Is Meals: A Food Lover’s Book of Days, written with Kay Salter. He died on 19 Juni 2015 in Sag Harbor, New York at the age of 90.