Golf Dreams, John Updike
Golf Dreams, John Updike
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Golf Dreams
Writings on Golf

Author: John Updike

Narrator: John Updike

Unabridged: 2 hr 50 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/24/2017


Synopsis

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Golf 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.

About The Author

John Updike was the author of more than sixty books, eight of them collections of poetry. His novels, including The Centaur, Rabbit Is Rich, and Rabbit at Rest, won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the William Dean Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He died in January 2009.


Reviews

Goodreads review by E.J.

From whom but Updike are we to read a book of essays on golf that includes Herodotus, Artemis, Florence Nightingale, George Eliot, Dante, and Rabbit Angstrom? The Diker describes a northeastern golfer bemoaning the winter weather that interrupts his golf addiction thus(ly): "(Golf dreams) steal upon......more

Goodreads review by Bob

updike captures all the feelings of the average golfer. Enjoyed this book so much more than his classic Rabbit Run, since Updike is the main character, not Rabbit Angstom......more

If you're a golfer, this collection of well-told, golf goodies is a no-brainer. It's easy to put yourself into the pages of most of Mr. Updike's stories, especially those of us who came of age during his timeframe when many of the tales unfold, that is, the nineteen sixties and seventies. We each pl......more


Quotes

“Limber and sprightly, unique, alive . . . Updike understands golf, keenly, and expresses his understanding with charm and beauty, in words as sturdy as Lee Trevino’s stance.”—Sports Illustrated
 
“A book written under a clear blue sky with an utterly pure swing . . . Here, Updike waltzes about the heavens of Nabokov, in pure esthetic bliss. And here his transcendental agonies and anxieties fuse into split-second moments of impact that lift us from sand pit to rhapsody.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer
 
“[Golf Dreams clears] the hazards with ease and grace. [Updike] is eloquent on the pleasures and frustrations of the game [and] even better at dramatizing its mysterious pull.”—The New York Times