| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
xvi, 201 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm |
| Contents |
Learning the game. Golf dreams -- Drinking from a cup made cinchy -- Tips on a trip -- The pro -- Swing thoughts -- Those three- or four-footers -- The gimme game -- The trouble with a caddie -- Moral exercise. |
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Playing the game. Intercession -- Three rounds with Rabbit Angstrom -- A good round with Tom Marshfield -- The golf-course proprietor -- Golf as a game of the people -- The big bad boom -- The camaraderie of golf : I -- The camaraderie of golf : II -- Farrell's caddie -- Upon winning one's flight in the senior four-ball -- Golfers. |
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Loving the game. The bliss of golf -- Is there life after golf? -- Golf in writing -- U.S. golf -- Television golf -- Memoirs of a marshal -- Women's work -- Is life too short for golf? -- The Yankee golfer -- December golf. |
| Summary |
The author brings together his writings--culled from "The New Yorker," "Golf Digest," and his fiction--on the wonderful world of golf, sharing thoughts on the game, good and bad golf, the golfing mystique, fellow players, and technical niceties. |
| Subject |
Golf -- Literary collections.
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Golf. (OCoLC)fst00944659
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Golf (sport)
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Golf. (DE-588)4021569-6
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| Genre/Form |
Belletristische Darstellung.
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Literary collections. (OCoLC)fst01423811
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Updike, John. Golf dreams. 1st ed. New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, Inc, 1996 (OCoLC)604821399 |
| ISBN |
0679450580 (Knopf) |
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9780679450580 (Knopf) |
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0449225542 (Fawcett) |
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9780449225547 (Fawcett) |
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