Philip Dean, a gifted Yale dropout, has an affair with a girl in a small French town in the 1950s. His compatriot, with whom he is staying, imagines their relationship in detail. As the narrator's reality recedes, so his fantasy of the relationship becomes hauntingly, overwhelmingly real.
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Philip Dean, a gifted Yale dropout, has an affair with a girl in a small French town in the 1950s. His compatriot, with whom he is staying, imagines their relationship in detail. As the narrator's reality recedes, so his fantasy of the relationship becomes hauntingly, overwhelmingly real.
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this novel echoes the best of ernest hemingway and henry miller without imitating either. it also creates an erotic fantasy that seems absolutely rooted in the minutae of ordinary relationships. but these are lesser qualities compared to what a sport and a pastime does to celebrate provincial france. that is where the real love story exists, within the quiet french countryside that salter evokes with a closely observed reverence for delail that utterly separates his geography from the rest of the world. i honestly don't know another piece of fiction that does this so beautifully and effortlessly, making salter's jewel a work with nothing quite like it.
