Golf dreams : writings on golf

by John Updike

Paper Book, 1996

Status

Available

Call number

813/.54

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Publication

New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, Inc, 1996.

Description

Make it easy on yourself - read John Updike in Large Print! * All Random House Large Print Editions are published in a 16-point type 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.… (more)

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Original publication date

1996

Physical description

xvi, 201 p.; 21 cm

ISBN

0679450580 / 9780679450580

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