Match Made in Heaven - Hardcover

Mitchell, Bob

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0758212690 ISBN 13: 9780758212696

Verlag: Kensington Publishing, 2006

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This hilarious and thought-provoking novel follows Elliott Goodman who, after a heart attack, gets a chance to save his own life when God challenges him to an eighteen-hole golf match against such legendary opponents as Leonardo da Vinci, Babe Ruth, and Socrates.

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"So...why should I save you?" That's the question Elliott Goodman hears in the OR as he's about to have emergency surgery following a heart attack. But it isn't Elliott's surgeon who's asking. It's God. As in The Almighty. And God has a wager for Elliott. He challenges him to an eighteen-hole golf match. If Elliott wins, he is saved; if he loses...So begins this witty, insightful, very funny, and wholly unique novel about golf and life and the lessons learned from both. To be fair (isn't He always?), God sends down eighteen legendary opponents to play against Elliott and hopefully teach him a few tricks along the way. From Leonardo da Vinci (nice clubs) to Marilyn Monroe (nice...everything), Babe Ruth (pass the hot dogs), Abraham Lincoln (cheater!), and fourteen other luminaries, including Moses, John Lennon, Joan of Arc, Picasso, W.C. Fields, Socrates, Babe Didrikson Zaharias, Beethoven, Gandhi, and Shakespeare, Elliott squares off against some of the most extraordinary people who've ever lived. As shots are analyzed, balls enter bunkers, and Freud drives the cart (control freak), Elliott has a chance to examine his life and his form, to see what he can correct or improve before meeting his ultimate challenger. Bighearted and delightfully original, Bob Mitchell's "Match made in Heaven" is a grand celebration of golf and a profound parable of travelling our own personal fairways in a game where no effort is wasted, and every failure is just another chance to try again.

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• Verlag: Kensington Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0758212690
• ISBN 13: 9780758212696
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256