| Playing Time |
054425 |
| System Details |
Requires OverDrive Media Console (file size: 82494 KB). |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Note |
Downloadable audio file. |
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Title from: Title details screen. |
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Unabridged. |
| Performer |
Read by the author. |
| Note |
Duration: 5:44:25. |
| Summary |
Ever wonder how to retrieve a sunken golf cart from a snake-infested lake? Or which club in your bag is best suited for combat against a horde of rats? If these and other sporting questions are gnawing at you, The downhill lie, Carl Hiaasen's hilarious confessional about returning to the fairways after a thirty-two-year absence, is definitely the book for you. Originally drawn to the game by his father, Carl wisely quit golfing in 1973, when "Richard Nixon was hunkered down like a meth-crazed badger in the White House, Hank Aaron was one dinger shy of Babe Ruth's all-time home run record, and The Who had just released Quadrophenia." But some ambitions refuse to die, and as the years--and memories of shanked 7-irons--faded, it dawned on Carl that there might be one thing in life he could do better in middle age than he could as a youth. So gradually he ventured back to the dreaded driving range, this time as the father of a five-year-old son--and also as a grandfather. |
| Note |
GMD: electronic resource. |
| Subject |
Hiaasen, Carl.
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Golfers -- United States -- Biography.
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Golf -- Humor.
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| Genre/Form |
Audiobooks.
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| Added Author |
Books on Tape, Inc.
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| Other Form: |
Original 1415945802 (OCoLC)230386891 |
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