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A Sport and a Pastime James Salter
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

The novel that put Salter on the literary map was A Sport and a Pastime, published in 1967. His major influence, probably, is Hemingway. Discuss your observations and inspire those near to you to join you in this particular relaxing and tough activity. James Salter's prose style in A Sport and a Pastime (1967) is spare, fluid, and often lyrical. The above mentioned article provided you with assistance that will help make a sport fishing a lengthy-sustained pastime! Though this book's been reviewed a quadrillion times across the spectrum of print, paper, ones and zeroes, I've come to understand that it can be seen two. Many years ago, when a similar Salter wave appeared, I bought a new Modern Library edition of "A Sport and a Pastime," which recounted a love affair between a young American man and a young French woman. There is a mole on a young, French girl's neck and she works in a patisserie. It's all conjecture in the mind of the narrator who sits across from her on the train. Title: A Sport and a Pastime (Goodreads) A Sport and A Pastime is a wonderfully lyrical novel worth sinking your teeth into, the short sentences really give it a poetic feel throughout the whole book. I wanted to be in the same room as the man who wrote Light Years, A Sport and a Pastime, those short stories that won`t leave your head – My Lord You, Comet. A Sport and a Pastime by James Salter.