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Tuesday, January 27, 2009

A Sport And A Pastime - Opening

September. It seems these luminous days will never end. The city, which was almost empty during August, now is filling up again.  It is being replenished. The restaurants are all reopening, the shops. People are coming back from the country, the sea, from trips on roads all jammed with cars. The station is very crowded. 


"Remember that the life of this world is but a sport and a pastime ..."

-Koran, LVII 19

Copyright 1967 by James Salter
Originally published by Doubleday & Co., Inc.,;
reprinted by arrangement
Printed in the United States of America

Cover Design by David Bullen
Cover art: "Grand  Hotel-Vittel,"
copyright David Hockney, 1970

All of the characters  in this book are fictitious,
and any resemblance to actual persons, living
or dead, is purely coincidental.

North Point Press
850 Talbot Avenue
Berkeley, California
94706

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