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Golf Dreams
by
John Updike
"BUBBLY AND QUIZZICAL AND LUMINOUS."
--Los Angeles Times
"JOYFUL . . . THE JACK NICKLAUS OF GOLF WRITING . . . The 30 entries in this collection, drawn mainly from magazine pieces, constitute a championship round. . . . This unbridled appreciation of golf's mystical opportunities for grace and redemption will enthrall even those who have never followed an 80-yard worm-burner...more
--Los Angeles Times
"JOYFUL . . . THE JACK NICKLAUS OF GOLF WRITING . . . The 30 entries in this collection, drawn mainly from magazine pieces, constitute a championship round. . . . This unbridled appreciation of golf's mystical opportunities for grace and redemption will enthrall even those who have never followed an 80-yard worm-burner...more
Paperback, 224 pages
Published
September 8th 1997
by Ballantine Books
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John Updike is a great author and I enjoyed his take on the game of golf. Golf Dreams is a collection of pieces he has written through the years. There are pieces from magazine articles he has written for publications like Golf Diagest; a piece from three of his "Rabbit" series; even a speech he gave at the US Golf Associations 100 year anniversary. I enjoyed reading such a great author and how he shared his thought and experiences on golf. There were times, however, that he strayed ...more
Other than the short story "A&P", which I also love, this is only Updike material I've ever read. Having been raised in an environment rife with terrible golf, courtesy of my father and my high-school self, I greatly enjoyed this collection. The essays accounting Updike's ongoing (and largely unsuccessful, to hear him tell it) attempts to master the links are far more entertaining than the few short works of golf-based fiction included, which aren't bad enough to lose the book any st...more
Worth the admission price for the line, "I swing, and feel the impurities like bubbles and warps in glass".
Very good collection of thoughts and short stories concerning 'Gowf'
He doesn't like golf. He's addicted to it, but he doesn't like it. And he really, really, needs to find himself a different golf instructor.
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John Hoyer Updike (born March 18, 1932 in Shillington, Pennsylvania) was an American writer. Updike's most famous work is his Rabbit series (Rabbit, Run; Rabbit Redux; Rabbit Is Rich; Rabbit At Rest; and Rabbit Remembered). Rabbit is Rich and Rabbit at Rest both won Pulitzer Prizes for Updike. Describing his subject as "the American small town, Protestant middle class," Updike is well kn...more
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