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Golf Dreams: Writings on Golf

by John Updike · 1996

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rare and wonderful coming together of author and subject, Golf Dreams includes 30 pieces by bestselling author John Updike, culled from various sources—The New Yorker, Golf Digest, and his own fiction—which knowingly cover everything from the peculiar charms of bad golf to the camaraderie of good golf and the perils of its present boom. Line drawings.

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sportssportsMore like thisLess of this
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1990s1990sMore like thisLess of this
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adult
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medium · 224 pages
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