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John Updike - Golf Dreams: Writings on Golf

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"Memories in this collection, drawn mainly from magazine pieces, constitute a championship round. . . . This unbridled appreciation of golf's mystical opportunities for grace and redemption will enthrall even those who have never followed an 80-yard worm-burner with an elegant chip to the pin" ("People").
 

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John Updike on Golf

Date of Review:  Dec 14, 2003
The Bottom Line: Thirty short pieces of fiction and non-fiction all with John Updike's usual brilliance. But this might be too much golf for the less-than-devoted Updike fan or the non-golfing reader.
Review: John Updike, among the most celebrated of American authors, has used golf as a theme throughout his career and, as this collection fully shows, has used it well. Golf Dreams includes roughly four decades of short stories, essays, and even a poem or...
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Authors John Updike
Illustrator Paul Szep
Nonfiction Category Sports & Recreation • Fiction Themes
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  Kirkus: "It's charming to read one of this generation's most accomplished men of letters describing his love/hate relationship with golf--a game that saps one's patience and retards one's fashion sense--as 'one misery that doesn't necessarily love company.' An enjoyable experience cover-to-cover and tee-to-green."

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  Format: Paperback
Publisher: Fawcett Books (September 01, 1997)
Measurements: 8.75"(h) x 5.5"(w) x 0.5"(d), 0.45 lbs.
ISBN: 9780449912690
 

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