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A Sport and a Pastime by James Salter

A Sport and a Pastime James Salter ebook
ISBN: 9780374530501
Format: pdf
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page: 200

James Salter's novel A Sport and a Pastime is the book to buy for any miserable wretch in your life who thinks Fifty Shades of Grey is quality erotica. Curling only burns 345 calories during an hour of competition, but in Canada, it's not just a sport, it's the national pastime. Everybody wishes to have an train everyday. He reminds me a bit of Fitzgerald as well. Salter of the Earth: 'Sport and a Pastime' Author Gets Down and Dirty In New Novel. He rides a bicycle … Bicycle racing is a sport like rock, paper, scissors is a sport. His writing is deceptively simple. A Sport and a Pastime James Salter ebook. By Daniel Edward Rosen 4/09 8:15pm. This is a passage from that novel and not a poem, but there is some quality of it that gave me special pause. Salter's earlier works were generally books about how men measure themselves: against women (A Sport and a Pastime, Light Years) or against themselves (The Hunters, Solo Faces). Staying strong depends fundamentally on staying energetic. 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. It's like synchronized diving is a sport or beach volleyball is a sport. Daily Book Excerpt: Adult fiction: A Sport and a Pastime , by James Salter. A Sport and a Pastime by James Salter. Is Tiger Woods proof that golf is a sport, or is John Daly confirmation to the contrary? Both events are free and open to the public. Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. I have been reading James Salter's small novel A Sport and a Pastime. A important respect to pull off optimal physical condition is to intermix sport and corporeal pastime. Salter (A Sport and its Pastime, 1967) will deliver a reading in UAlbany's Campus Center on April 4 at 8 p.m.