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A Sport and a Pastime
- Narrated by: Jeff Woodman
- Length: 6 hrs and 32 mins
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Summary
"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, it is the intensely carnal story - part shocking reality, part feverish dream - of a love affair between a footloose Yale dropout and a young French girl. There is the seen and the unseen - and pages that burn with a rare intensity.
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- 31-08-22
Peotic and lustful
I found the narration annoying at times with the French accents, would have been better without.
The first few chapters are a little dry... but you have to give this style some time to work on you.
Deeper into the story the beautiful writing tells a vintage 50mm film camera story, in true shoe gazing, explicit and vouyeristic fashion. Lustful in a genuine sense (not at all cheapened) all the while it's true narrative being hidden until the end, delivered in an abrupt fashion.
I really enjoy this book less for its narrative, more for its aesthetic fell. That said, its end narrative was meaningful and moving.
I really liked it!
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