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A review by inoirita
A Sport and a Pastime by James Salter
5.0
The book is narrated by a very unreliable narrator, who describes the extremely passionate affair of a dashing American college dropout Philip Dean and a young French girl, Anne Marie.
Set in the 1960s France, our unnamed narrator meets Philip Dean. He is instantly impressed with his wisdom and goes on to imagine the relationship between Philip and the girl he is seen with, Anne Marie. Philip is everything that our narrator is not.
The narrator falls in love with someone and rather than approaching her like Philip would do, he gives up the idea of it and makes it difficult for us to comprehend the existence of Philip Dean. Maybe he did, maybe the narrator envied him, admired him or maybe he was just a string of his imagination caused due to his own shortcomings. The uncertainty of the existence of Philip Dean will surely drive the reader crazy.
Philip and Anne Marie is imagined by the narrator as if they were a young couple, very exuberant and filled with passion in their hearts.
Besides this, the best part of the novel is the ornamentation. The prose style of James Salter is beautiful and he creates such a vivid picture of the French countryside and it's dainty cafes and shops and the mesmerizing landscape.
Set in the 1960s France, our unnamed narrator meets Philip Dean. He is instantly impressed with his wisdom and goes on to imagine the relationship between Philip and the girl he is seen with, Anne Marie. Philip is everything that our narrator is not.
The narrator falls in love with someone and rather than approaching her like Philip would do, he gives up the idea of it and makes it difficult for us to comprehend the existence of Philip Dean. Maybe he did, maybe the narrator envied him, admired him or maybe he was just a string of his imagination caused due to his own shortcomings. The uncertainty of the existence of Philip Dean will surely drive the reader crazy.
Philip and Anne Marie is imagined by the narrator as if they were a young couple, very exuberant and filled with passion in their hearts.
Besides this, the best part of the novel is the ornamentation. The prose style of James Salter is beautiful and he creates such a vivid picture of the French countryside and it's dainty cafes and shops and the mesmerizing landscape.