Josh Karp

Straight Down the Middle

Shivas Irons, Bagger Vance, and How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love My Golf Swing

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Produktbeschreibung

Originally published: San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2010.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 224mm x 141mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 312g
• ISBN-13: 9780803240643
• ISBN-10: 0803240643
• Artikelnr.: 34748234

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Worst Club in My Bag Is My Brain
PART ONE-OUT
chapter 1 Things to Do in Denver When You're an 18-Handicap
chapter 2 Blue Fairways
chapter 3 Lost in the Maze
chapter 4 Big Sky Buddha
chapter 5 And on Your Deathbed You Will Receive Unconditional Confidence .
. . Which Is Nice
chapter 6 The Bizarre Shit
chapter 7 Enter the Sensei
chapter 8 A Swing Is Reborn
PART TWO-IN
chapter 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 Wife
chapter 11 Welcome to the Kingdom
chapter 12 The Lost Tribe of Shivas
Acknowledgments