Golf stories
By: edited by Charles McGrath
Series: Everyman's pocket classics
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 331
ISBN-13: 9780307596895
Subjects: American Golf stories; English Golf stories
Description: Golf Stories is a wonderful gathering of short fiction about the famously addictive pastime. Here are literary classics by such golf-loving writers as P. G. Wodehouse, Ring Lardner, and John Updike, mixed with surprises like an appearance by Ian Fleming's James Bond and more.
Table of contents: title: The salvation of George Mackintosh / P. G. Wodehouse; title: Every minute / A. W. Tillinghast; title: The last round / Holworthy Hall; title: The wooden putter / Bernard Darwin; title: Winter dreams / F. Scott Fitzgerald; title: Mr Frisbie / Ring Lardner; title: The golfomaniac / Stephen Leacock; title: The sweet shot / E. C. Bentley; title: Caddie crisis / J. P. Marquand; title: Triumph at Crestwood / Rex Lardner; title: From Goldfinger / Ian Fleming; title: Harry Sprague meets the masters / Herbert Warren Wind; title: Farrell's caddy / John Updike; title: Graduation day / Ian Rankin; title: Tees and teens / Dan Jenkins; title: Homer / Rick Reilly; title: Sneaking on / Charles Mcgrath; title: The mower / James Kaplan.