34. James Salter - A Sport and a Pastime
Andy & John are joined on the Backlisted podcast by literary agent Claire Conville and writer and author Rowan Pelling to discuss James Salter's 1967 novel of lust and imagination. The book, a description of an affair between an American college drop out and a French shop girl, has been acclaimed by critics as 'nearly perfect' and 'extraordinary'.
Books Mentioned:
Andy Miller - The Year of Reading Dangerously
James Salter - A Sport and a Pastime, Light Years, The Hunters, Cassada , Solo Faces, All That Is
Dorothy Edwards - Rhapsody, Winter Sonata
Daisy Ashford - The Young Visiters
Viet Thanh Nguyen - The Sympathizer, The Refugees
George Saunders - Lincoln in the Bardo
William Maxwell - So Long, See You Tomorrow
Émile Zola - Thérèse Raquin
Shirley Jackson - The Haunting of Hill House
Elizabeth Smart - By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept
Marguerite Duras - The Lover
Mikhail Bulgakov - The Master and Margarita
F Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby
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