Straight Down the Middle - Shivas Irons, Bagger Vance, How I Learned to Stop Worrying Love My

Informationen zum Autor Josh Karp is an adjunct lecturer in journalism at Northwestern University and a freelance journalist whose work has appeared in numerous publications and websites, including Salon, the Atlantic Monthly, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Magazine, and the Huffington Post. He is the author of A Stupid and Futile Gesture, named Best Biography of 2006 at the Independent Publisher Book Awards and the Midwest Book Awards. Klappentext Originally published: San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2010. Zusammenfassung Journey of a common man in search of an uncommon kingdom across the fairways of North America (and Scotland, of course!) Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: The Worst Club in My Bag Is My BrainPART ONE-OUTchapter 1 Things to Do in Denver When You're an 18-Handicapchapter 2 Blue Fairwayschapter 3 Lost in the Mazechapter 4 Big Sky Buddhachapter 5 And on Your Deathbed You Will Receive Unconditional Confidence . . . Which Is Nicechapter 6 The Bizarre Shitchapter 7 Enter the Senseichapter 8 A Swing Is RebornPART TWO-INchapter 9 Have the Jews Not Suffered Enough?chapter 10 Zen, Ox Herding, and How I Played the Best Golf of My Life Without Being Murdered by My Wifechapter 11 Welcome to the Kingdomchapter 12 The Lost Tribe of ShivasAcknowledgments

Product details

• Authors: Josh Karp
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.05.2012
• EAN: 9780803240643
• ISBN: 978-0-8032-4064-3
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Guides > Sport > Ball sport; Humanities, art, music > History > Contemporary history (1945 to 1989); Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies