{"product_id":"9781453243817","title":"A Sport and a Pastime","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe astonishing novel and “tour de force” about a love affair in postwar France from the iconic author of \u003ci\u003eAll That Is \u003c\/i\u003e(\u003ci\u003eThe \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003ci\u003e.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Twenty-year-old Yale dropout Phillip Dean is traveling Europe aimlessly in a borrowed car with little money. When he stops for a few days in a church-quiet town near Dijon, he meets Anne-Marie Costallat, a young shop assistant. The two begin an affair both carnal and innocent, and she quickly becomes to him the real France, its beating heart and an object of pure longing.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e James Salter, author of \u003ci\u003eLight Years\u003c\/i\u003e and the memoir \u003ci\u003eBurning the Days\u003c\/i\u003e, was an essential voice in the evolution of late twentieth-century prose, a stylist on par with Updike and Roth who won the PEN\/Faulkner Award for his collection \u003ci\u003eDusk and Other Stories\u003c\/i\u003e. One of the first great American novels to speak frankly of human desire free of guilt and shame, \u003ci\u003eA Sport and a Pastime\u003c\/i\u003e inspired Reynolds Price to call it “as nearly perfect as any American fiction I know.”\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis ebook edition features an illustrated biography of James Salter including rare photos from the author’s personal collection.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  ","brand":"Open Road Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47176801648880,"sku":"9781453243817","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781453243817_p0.jpg?v=1763855651","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781453243817","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}