Golf Dreams

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2 cassettes / 3 hoursRead by the AuthorGolf is neither work nor play, John Updike tells us: "Golf is a trip."Golf has been the subject of many books and the province of many experts, but few have written as sympathetically, or as knowingly, about the peculiar charms of bad golf, and the satisfactions of an essentially losing struggle.John Updike has been writing about golf since he took the game up at the age of twenty-five. In the nearly forty years of pleasurable bafflement that have followed, he has composed essays for Golf Digest and short stories for The New Yorker concerning the sport.His memories, insights, and witty remarks make this a truly unique audiobook. John Updike will tell you, in his own voice and his own words, how he learned the game, plays the game, and loves the game.

"While he is eloquent on the pleasures and frustrations of the game, he is even better at dramatizing its mysterious pull....To judge from the most recent prose in 'Golf Dreams', the drives may not be carrying as far, but the sentences are still clearing the hazards with ease and grace."

Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, New York Times

"Hemingway had bullfights; Mailer, boxing. Updike [has] golf....He has long since established himself as the Jack Nicklaus of golf writing!"

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