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A Sport and a Pastime Houghton a map of giraffe geography"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