Jeremy's Reviews > Golf Dreams: Writings on Golf

Golf Dreams by John Updike

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Nov 06, 07

bookshelves: essays, sports, old-town-library, humor

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 stars but do feel like padding.

I will now read whatever Updike I can get my hands on and we'll see how it goes.

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