Golf Dreams
by John Updike
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Knopf 1996, Published September 5,1966/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0449225542
- ISBN 13
- 9780449225547
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About This Item
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.
Synopsis
John Updike was born in Shillington, Pennsylvania, in 1932. He graduated from Harvard College in 1954 and spent a year in Oxford, England, at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art. From 1955 to 1957 he was a member of the staff of The New Yorker . His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Rosenthal Foundation Award, and the William Dean Howells Medal. In 2007 he received the Gold Medal for Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. John Updike died in January 2009.
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- Title
- Golf Dreams
- Author
- John Updike
- Book Condition
- Used - Knopf 1996, Published September 5,1966
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Knopf 1996, Published September 5,1966
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0449225542
- ISBN 13
- 9780449225547
- Publisher
- Knopf
- Date Published
- 1996
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- FICTION / General;
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