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A Sport and a Pastime by James Salter
$26.95 NZD
Category: Fiction
Philip Dean, a gifted Yale dropout, has an affair with a girl in a small French town in the 1950s. His compatriot, with whom he is staying, imagines their relationship in detail. As the narrator's reality recedes, so his fantasy of the relationship becomes hauntingly, overwhelmingly real.
A Sport and a Pastime by James Salter
$24.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
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 burn in an everyday but stunningly sensual paradise. A Sport and A Pastime established ...Show more
A Sport and a Pastime: Picador Classic by James Salter
$24.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Classic
With an introduction by Sarah Hall 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 burn in an everyday but stunningly sensual paradise. ...Show more
All That Is by James Salter
$29.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
From his experiences as a naval officer in battles off Okinawa during World War II, Philip Bowman returns to America and finds a position as a book editor. He soon inhabits a world where marriages fail as affairs ignite, alcohol reigns, writers struggle, and publishers hustle. It is a world in which to ...Show more
All That Is by James Salter
$24.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
All That Is explores a life unfolding in a world on the brink of change. The life is that of Philip Bowman and we see his formative experiences as a young naval officer in battles off Okinawa, his post-war career as a book editor in New York, his trips to the great European cities - for publishing parti ...Show more
Burning the Days by James Salter
$24.95 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
This brilliant memoir brings to life an entire era through the sensibility of one of America's finest authors. Recollecting fifty years of love, desire and friendship, "Burning the Days" traces the life of a singular man, who starts out in Manhattan and comes of age in the skies over Korea, before reinv ...Show more
Flight Patterns: A Century of Stories About Flying by Dorothy Spears (Editor); James Salter; Mary Gaitskill
$42.74 NZD
Category: History
Over the last century air travel has evolved from a high-risk experiment involving a few visionary pioneers to an efficient--and often irritating--means for distributing masses of people to the far reaches of the globe. During the hundred-year history of human air travel, it has yielded writing that is, ...Show more
Last Night by James Salter
$27.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
"Last Night" is a spellbinding collection of stories about passion-by turns fiery and subdued, destructive and redemptive, alluring and devastating. These ten powerful stories portray men and women in their most intimate moments. A lover of poetry is asked by his wife to give up what may be his most tre ...Show more
Life Is Meals: A Food Lover's Book of Days by James Salter; Kay Salter
$39.99 NZD
Category: Cooking & Wine
From the award-winning author James Salter and his wife, Kay - amateur chefs and terrific hosts - here is a lively, beautifully illustrated food lover's companion. With an entry for each day of the year, Life Is Meals takes us from a Twelfth Night cake in January to a champagne dinner on New Year's Eve. ...Show more
Light Years by James Salter
$29.95 NZD
Category: Fiction
Viri and Nedra Berland live a gilded life in upstate New York. Their days revolve around leisurely dinners, ingenious games with their two daughters and long, sun-kissed spells by the water. Nedra, with her brilliant smile and air of mystery, is a magnet for their urbane friends from the city. Viri, ima ...Show more
Light Years by James Salter
$27.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Negra and Viri are a married couple whose favoured life is centred around dinners, ingenious games with their children, enviable friends and near-perfect days passed skating on a frozen river or sunning on the beach. But fine cracks are beginning to spread through the shimmering surface of their life - ...Show more
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