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A Sport and a Pastime: A Novel (FSG Classics)

"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, James

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James Salter (4)

“The more clearly one sees this world, the more one is obliged to pretend it does not exist.”

— James Salter, amazon.com

Tagged: Life

“I recognized in him a clever strain of assurance which has nothing to imitate, which springs forth in tact. It feeds on its own reflection.”

— James Salter, amazon.com

Tagged: Life

“They stand beneath the shower. He nestles himself flat in the meeting of her buttocks. An excruciating douche. He feels unable to move, but he begins to soap her breasts which glisten like seals beneath the flow of water. He scrubs her back. Between the shoulder blades the skin is broken out in smal…”

— James Salter, amazon.com

Tagged: Sex, Love

“She is so wet by the time he has the pillows under her gleaming stomach that he goes right into her in one long, delicious move. They begin slowly. When he is close to coming he pulls his prick out and lets it cool. Then he starts again, guiding it with one hand, feeding it in like line. She begins…”

— James Salter, amazon.com

Tagged: Sex, Love, orgasm