Golf Stories Hardcover by Edited by Charles McGrath

Product Details

• Publisher: Everyman's Library (2011-04-05)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 336 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780307596895
• Item Weight: 357.21 grams
• Dimensions: 7.5 x 4.9 x 0.99 cm

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 a little crime on the links from mystery master Ian Rankin. Humorists and sportswriters ranging from E. C. Bentley to Dan Jenkins and Rick Reilly weigh in as well, alongside a tale of romance on the greens from F. Scott Fitzgerald, a little-known gem by famous golf architect A. W. Tillinghast, and a story by Rex Lardner (Ring’s nephew) that just may be the single funniest thing ever written about golf. The resulting anthology is as enticing, provocative, and entertaining as the game of golf itself. 
 
 

About the Author

Charles McGrath is a writer at large at The New York Times, and was formerly editor of The New York Times Book Review and deputy editor of The New Yorker. He is co-author of The Ultimate Golf Book and a frequent contributor to Golf Digest. He lives in New Jersey.