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Golf Dreams

Writings on Golf

Writings on Golf

Writings on Golf

By John Updike
Illustrated by Paul Szep

By John Updike
Illustrated by Paul Szep

By John Updike
Illustrated by Paul Szep

By John Updike
Illustrated by Paul Szep

By John Updike
Read by John Updike

By John Updike
Read by John Updike

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Paperback $16.00

Sep 08, 1997 | ISBN 9780449912690

Ebook $12.99

Feb 16, 2011 | ISBN 9780307784124

Audiobook Download $14.00

Oct 24, 2017 | 171 Minutes

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    About Golf Dreams

    John Updike wrote about the lure of golf for five decades, from the first time he teed off at the age of twenty-five until his final rounds at the age of seventy-six. Golf Dreams collects the most memorable of his golf pieces, high-spirited evidence of his learning, playing, and living for the game. The camaraderie of golf, the perils of its present boom, how to relate to caddies, and how to manage short putts are among the topics he addresses, sometimes in lyrical essays, sometimes in light verse, sometimes in wickedly comic fiction. All thirty pieces have the lilt of a love song, and the crispness of a firm chip stiff to the pin.

    About Golf Dreams

    John Updike wrote about the lure of golf for five decades, from the first time he teed off at the age of twenty-five until his final rounds at the age of seventy-six. Golf Dreams collects the most memorable of his golf pieces, high-spirited evidence of his learning, playing, and living for the game. The camaraderie of golf, the perils of its present boom, how to relate to caddies, and how to manage short putts are among the topics he addresses, sometimes in lyrical essays, sometimes in light verse, sometimes in wickedly comic fiction. All thirty pieces have the lilt of a love song, and the crispness of a firm chip stiff to the pin.

    About Golf Dreams

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    Golf 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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    About John Updike

    JOHN UPDIKE is the author of more than sixty books, eight of them collections of poetry. His novels won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle, and the William Dean Howells Medal of the American… More about John Updike

    About John Updike

    JOHN UPDIKE is the author of more than sixty books, eight of them collections of poetry. His novels won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle, and the William Dean Howells Medal of the American… More about John Updike

    About John Updike

    JOHN UPDIKE is the author of more than sixty books, eight of them collections of poetry. His novels won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle, and the William Dean Howells Medal of the American… More about John Updike

    Product Details

    Category: Sports | Biography & Memoir

    Paperback | $16.00
    Published by Random House Trade Paperbacks
    Sep 08, 1997 | 208 Pages | 5-1/2 x 8-1/4 | ISBN 9780449912690

    Category: Sports | Biography & Memoir

    Ebook | $12.99
    Published by Random House
    Feb 16, 2011 | 208 Pages | ISBN 9780307784124

    Category: Sports | Biography & Memoir | Audiobooks

    Audiobook Download | $14.00
    Published by Random House Audio
    Oct 24, 2017 | 171 Minutes | ISBN 9780525631330

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    Praise

    “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

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