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Toby Olson's PEN/Faulkner Award-winning novel follows Allen-a golf hustler-and his wife, Melinda, across an American wasteland to return Melinda to her childhood home on Cape Cod; Melinda is dying of cancer and hopes to reach the seaside where she was born before her end comes. Allen earns their way east by hustling at courses en route. Outside of Tucson, the two meet a Pima Indian and activist named Bob White, who joins them on the remainder of their journey for mysterious reasons of his own. Allen's former friend, Richard, a cocaine dealer whom he has crossed and who is now determined to kill him, follows closely behind; the lines that draw these people together end at Seaview Links, where the novel reaches its apocalypse.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0976631164
ISBN13:9780976631163
Release Date:December 2006
Publisher:Hawthorne Books
Length:316 Pages
Weight:0.93 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 5.5" x 9.0"
Customer Reviews
2 ratings
Difficult, but well worth it
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 23 years ago
Toby Olson's novel is complex, and its details may seem tedious to undisciplined readers. However, for those willing to give their full attention to Olson's prose, you will be rewarded fascinating insights, rich characters, good humor, and most important the golf scene, which is easily the greatest description of the game of golf in American literature, and rises to the highest levels of prose American writers have written. Yes, the scene's that good - but you'll have to work for it. Oh yes - the book takes a funny turn toward the end, so stick with it. Overall, quite wonderful.
Novel about the end of westward expansion and Golf
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 25 years ago
Golf and native americans and returning home and moving east are the themes here a great novel that ends on Cape Cod after starting somewhere out west on a golf course...
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