Golf Dreams: Writings on Golf - Softcover

Updike, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0449912698 ISBN 13: 9780449912690

Verlag: Random House Publishing Group, 1997

Inhaltsangabe

Book by Updike John

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Críticas:

"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

Reseña del editor:

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.

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• Verlag: Random House Publishing Group
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0449912698
• ISBN 13: 9780449912690
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 208
• Zeichner: Szep Paul