A Sport and a Pastime
04 September 2025Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
'One of the finest American writers of his mighty generation' - Esquire
'A tour de force of erotic realism, a romantic cliffhanger' - The New York Times
The 1960s. Philip Dean, a footloose Yale dropout, is touring provincial France and sometimes Paris in a borrowed, once elegant car. He begins a mismatched affair with a young shop girl named Anne-Marie. Together they...
Details
04 September 2025208 pages
9781035063734Imprint: Picador
Reviews
A great literary novel but also the most erotic book ever writtenJonathan Dee, Financial Times
A Sport and a Pastime . . . Slender, cynical and bruisingly sexy, the novel represents the first full flowering of [Salter’s] mature style; his exquisite sentences and extraordinary evocation of placeThe Daily Telegraph
Now deemed canonical . . . A Sport and a Pastime [is] still one of the most intensely honest books about sexual passionThe Sunday Times
A tour de force of erotic realism, a romantic cliffhangerThe New York Times
