A Sport and a Pastime (1967) is a novel by the American writer James Salter.
Overview
A Sport and a Pastime (1967) is a novel by the American writer James Salter.
Summary
Set in France in the early 1960s, the sad and tender story concerns the erotic affair of American middle-class college drop-out Philip Dean and a young French girl, Anne-Marie, as witnessed by a self-consciously unreliable narrator. The unnamed narrator freely admits that much of his observation is in fact his own fantasy of the couple, and includes a number of sexually-explicit descriptions of their day-to-day existence as he imagines it.
Location
Many of the story's events take place in the town of Autun in Burgundy.
