A Sport and a Pastime Author:James Salter A Sport and a Pastime is an astonishing performance, the classic novel from a remarkable writer whose sentences bristle with a singular passion. Salter chronicles a love affair between a young shopgirl and an American college dropout against the backdrop of provincial France. The narrator's cool distillation of events -- real or imagi... more »ned -- makes the book both lyrical and tightly, dangerously pitched.« less