A Sport and a Pastime

The astonishing novel and “tour de force” about a love affair in postwar France from the iconic author of All That Is ( The New York Times Book Review ) . Twenty-year-old Yale dropout Phillip Dean is traveling Europe aimlessly in a borrowed car with little money. When he stops for a few days in a church-quiet town near Dijon, he meets Anne-Marie Costallat, a young shop assistant. The two begin an affair both carnal and innocent, and she quickly becomes to him the real France, its beating heart a