Finding True Center: A Golf Story about Life - Hardcover

Gordon, Michael J

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0595662927 ISBN 13: 9780595662920

Publisher: iUniverse, 2004

Synopsis

Lifelong friends Nick and Easy love both golf and a serious wager. Their shared passion moves beyond the extreme when a drunken bar bet results in a far-fetched scheme: playing head-to-head in every state across America as the ultimate measure to determine the better golfer. Only their self-styled, cross-country championship quickly takes a series of unexpected turns.

As their three-year journey to golf's grandest courses unfolds, an unexpected cancer diagnosis threatens not only their wager, but also the limits of their 20-year friendship. Against the backdrop of a startling request and moral dilemma--choosing to die with dignity--what they ultimately discover is the strength to handle the unforeseen, the underlying meaning of their bet, and the often-difficult choices that define true friendship.

Based in part on an actual bet and the ensuing real-life golf experiences, this blending of golf history, Finding True Center is great theater, and Nick and Easy's journey seeks to be as thought provoking as it is entertaining.

About this title

About the Author

Born and raised in southern Indiana, Michael J. Gordon now lives in Monterey, California. He loves all things golf-especially golf literature. When not reading, or writing, he works in technology sales and in the seemingly futile quest to lower his handicap.

He loses more bets than he wins-but he always bets.

This is his first novel.

For more information visit www.gordonbooks.com

Edition details

• Publisher: iUniverse
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0595662927
• ISBN 13: 9780595662920
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 228