A Sport and a Pastime
"As nearly perfect as any American fiction I know," is how Reynolds Price (The New York Times) 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--part shocking...
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"As nearly perfect as any American fiction I know," is how Reynolds Price (The New York Times) 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--part shocking reality, part feverish dream --of a love affair between a footloose Yale dropout and a young French girl. There is the seen and the unseen--and pages that burn with a rare intensity.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780374530501 (0374530505)
ASIN: 374530505
Publish date: August 22nd 2006
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages no: 185
Edition language: English
my friend Chuck calls that "sport fucking". oh, Chuck. where have you and your crooked teeth been lately? I haven't seen you for so long. you're probably married by now.
A bittersweet novel that at first seemed to deal mostly with the (unreliable) narrator's fantasies about fornication and sodomy in France but which ended up grabbing me with its surprisingly gentle and melancholy story. Without being too gender predjudiced I would say this is primarily a "male" nov...
Short, choppy sentences which at first seemed interesting, eventually grew tiresome. Plus more racist language. What is it with these white literary types? Sick of all the n-bombs. I gave up after 50 pages.
Um... wow. That was all kinds of bad. Disjointed narration mixed with a non-existent plot combined with bland characters. The trifecta of a sucky ass novel. There's nothing I liked about this book. Perhaps a line or two. Half the time I wasn't even sure of what I was reading. Then I realize that t...
A writer staying in the French countryside nurses a fruitless crush or two and envies and imagines the affair being carried on by another American acquaintance. This displays many of the prejudices of the time (towards women, towards black GIs and jazz singers), and the conceit takes a while to get...
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