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Golf Dreams: Writings on Golf Hardcover - 1996

by John Updike; Paul Szep (Illustrator)


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Make it easy on yourself - read John Updike in Large Print!
* All Random House Large Print Editions are published in a 16-point typeGolf is neither work nor play, John Updike tells us: Golf is a trip.
Golf has been the subject of many books and the province of many experts, but few have written as sympathetically, or as knowingly, about the peculiar charms of bad golf, and the satisfactions of an essentially losing struggle.John Updike has been writing about golf since he took the game up at the age of twenty-five. In the nearly forty years of pleasurable bafflement that have followed, he has composed essays for Golf Digest and short stories for The New Yorker concerning the sport.
His memories, insights, and witty remarks make this a truly unique audiobook. John Updike will tell you, in his own voice and his own words, how he learned the game, plays the game, and loves the game.

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  • Title Golf Dreams: Writings on Golf
  • Author John Updike; Paul Szep (Illustrator)
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 224
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Knopf Publishing Group, New York
  • Date 1996-08-20
  • Large Print Yes
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780679450580 / 0679450580
  • Weight 0.85 lbs (0.39 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.16 x 5.63 x 0.96 in (20.73 x 14.30 x 2.44 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Golf - Literary collections
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 96004634
  • Dewey Decimal Code 813.54

Media reviews

“Limber and sprightly, unique, alive . . . Updike understands golf, keenly, and expresses his understanding with charm and beauty, in words as sturdy as Lee Trevino’s stance.”—Sports Illustrated
 
“A book written under a clear blue sky with an utterly pure swing . . . Here, Updike waltzes about the heavens of Nabokov, in pure esthetic bliss. And here his transcendental agonies and anxieties fuse into split-second moments of impact that lift us from sand pit to rhapsody.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer
 
“[Golf Dreams clears] the hazards with ease and grace. [Updike] is eloquent on the pleasures and frustrations of the game [and] even better at dramatizing its mysterious pull.”—The New York Times

About the author

John Updike was born in 1932, in Shillington, Pennsylvania. His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the American Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Howell's Medal.
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