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Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0385316763
ISBN-13: 9780385316767
Jun 1997
Publisher: Bantam Dell Pub Group
234 pages
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Language: English |
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Synopsis
A golf novel about the coming of age of a 13-year-old caddie in Texas.
| Size | | Length: | 234 pages | | Height: | 8.0 in | | Width: | 5.5 in | | Thickness: | 0.5 in | | Weight: | 7.2 oz |
Industry Reviews
"[This] linkster's coming-of-age yarn is snatched from the abyss of the excessively reverent by some colorful local characters, a lost-father riff, and the author's dead-on ear for Lone Star State dialogue....A paean to the Scottish game of sticks and flags with authentic lingo, a solid structure, and plenty of old-fashioned masculine wallowing in the transcendent metaphor of silly games."
Kirkus Reviews (05/15/1996)
"Pipkin, surprisingly, holds our interest more with the characters and their backgrounds, which have feeling and Texas lore behind them, than with the golf..."
Los Angeles Times Book Review - Michael Harris (05/26/1996)
"Part coming-of-age story and part paean to life on the links, Turk Pipkin's charming first novel is narrated by Billy Hemphill, who wistfully recalls his childhood living with his grandmother in West Texas in the 1960s....It hardly matters that the plot is a bit predictable and the writing overly sentimental in places; the narrative is endowed with a vivid sense of time and place, the characters are wonderfully drawn and the dialogue is sharp and colorful."
New York Times Book Review - Scott Veale (07/21/1996)
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