A Sport and a Pastime Houghton She hatches an audacious plan

She hatches an audacious plan -- free a thief from a prison planet from which no one has ever returned

she flees New York City in search of Alice

When Sage stumbles upon Ian's dead body in the nearby woods--his hand still clutching one of her coffee mugs--it's clear that someone's grudge boiled over into murder

a brother and sister heed their grandmother's advice: "Use those beautiful and brilliant minds of yours

A Sport and a Pastime Houghton She hatches an audacious plan"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 Salter's A Sport and a Pastime 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