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Summer Reader – Golf Books
THE BOGEY MAN by George Plimpton.
A beloved figure in the literary world and a founding editor of The Paris Review, Plimpton became famous in the 1960s for trying his hand at such professional sports as NFL football and major league baseball—and living writing for Hollywood. But he loved golf and wrote prolifically on the subject.
In this collection of tales about a fictional golf club, his female characters are as entertaining as the male ones. There’s the low- handicapper Jane, whose romantic musings about her fiancé, William, include the delight she takes in his nearly equal handicap. And then there’s the club champion Agnes Flack, who hits it 240 yards and never lets a touch of rain put her off her game.
In the deliciously absurd “Feet of Clay” the final round of the Women’s Singles Championship involves a thunderstorm, a Pekinese and an “expensively upholstered” Lulabelle Sprockett, heir to Sprockett’s Superfine Sardines. Read the rest of this entry »
