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Having reached the crossroads in life commonly known as the midlife crisis, Jim Dodson sets out from his home in Maine for the Sandhills of North Carolina, home to some of America's most celebrated golf courses and the place where his father introduced him to the joys of that game. It's a trip that holds special meaning. In recent years, Jim lost both his father and mother and left a longtime job with a major golfing magazine. Somewhere along the way he also lost the delight in the game that he'd always taken for granted.
With the hope of regaining the fire that had motivated him, and of drawing inspiration from the touchstones of his youth, Jim takes a job as writer in residence with a paper in Southern Pines, expecting that in time his family will join him. He especially wants his teenage son, Jack, to experience the thrill he found in playing golf in that storied locale with his own father. A masterful raconteur, Dodson weaves the history of golf in the Sandhills into his own story. He finds new meaning through an old, time-honored sport and reaches out to his son to find, in the game, a mutual language.
Written with great wit and tenderness and filled with remarkable anecdotes about the game and its players - like Ben Hogan, Arnold Palmer, Payne Stewart, Sam Snead, and Tiger Woods - A Son of the Game is a classic story about a man's quest to recover his lost passion, and to share that passion with his son.
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- PublisherAlgonquin Books
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 1565125061
- ISBN 13 9781565125063
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages292
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