false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171689098m/114511.jpg 114511 15 <div><div>&#8220;As nearly perfect as any American fiction I know,&#8221; is how Reynolds Price (<i>The New York Times</i>) 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&#8212;part shocking reality, part feverish dream &#8212;of a love affair between a footloose Yale dropout and a young French girl. There is the seen and the unseen&#8212;and pages that burn with a rare intensity.</div></div> 2488018 1980 A Sport and a Pastime: A Novel total:436|5:142|4:158|3:100|2:29|1:7| 436 1707 670 74 4 3 false false Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Apr 05 08:50:17 -0700 2008 Fri Apr 11 09:57:29 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 2 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Thu Jul 12 09:24:06 -0700 2007 Sat Dec 15 09:01:57 -0800 2007
i'm glad i never had to read this book in a school setting because it's the kind of book that would be completely spoiled by literary analysis. "what phallic symbolism lies in the car?"...more...]]> 4 1 false false Sun Dec 02 17:03:55 -0800 2007 Mon Dec 10 10:42:07 -0800 2007 Holy cow, I just finished this over lunch and am struggling with the attempt to actually stay here at work and not just run out into the streets to find a glass of wine and a ticket to europe or somewhere--anywhere else and wear dresses and heels and find lovers in dark corners of dancehalls a...more...]]> 5 1 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Sep 12 05:38:35 -0700 2007 Wed Sep 12 06:01:40 -0700 2007 On the Road," complete with a male writer's man ...more...]]> 5 1 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Nov 29 07:48:20 -0800 2007 Mon Jan 07 23:05:00 -0800 2008
I almost lost faith in it...halfway through (even though great admirers of this book love it for this story alone), because the male f...more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Feb 18 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 14 16:47:08 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 18 11:00:58 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Jun 26 15:20:43 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 01 18:02:00 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 1 false false Fri Jun 06 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed May 07 22:08:09 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 09 18:39:41 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Oct 07 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Dec 04 14:43:30 -0800 2007 Tue Oct 07 13:59:47 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Oct 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 29 06:52:01 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 06 06:34:59 -0700 2009 more...]]> 1 0 false false Mon May 11 03:33:14 -0700 2009 Mon May 11 03:36:32 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Feb 15 09:37:28 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 15 09:40:38 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Dec 18 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 06 23:16:21 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 18 10:29:23 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Dec 12 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 08 06:27:54 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 15 07:45:11 -0800 2008 more...]]> 0 0 false false Thu Sep 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 30 11:19:47 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 11 03:22:55 -0700 2009 Never heard of Salter until last month, when I stumbled across a comment in these very pages. An intriguing comment. I bought the book and read it and fell for it. It sucked me in like the horizon of a black hole. I could not escape its pull and did not want to. I took my time. The prose was s...more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Feb 18 12:05:40 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 18 12:08:42 -0800 2009 5 1 false false Wed Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 1993 Mon Dec 08 13:30:47 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 08 13:30:47 -0800 2008 5 0 false false Tue Jan 20 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Dec 25 06:15:15 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 20 03:42:47 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 05 07:37:20 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 05 08:05:44 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Thu Oct 25 07:51:43 -0700 2007 Sat Dec 22 17:27:05 -0800 2007
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