The Greatest Player Who Never Lived

A crisp clean softcover, no markings throughout: With very few exceptions--think Dan Jenkins's Dead Solid Perfect and Steven Pressfield's The Legend of Bagger Vance--golf's most notable fictions ar e generally consigned to the imaginative mathematics that weekend duffers jot down on their scorecards. Consider The Greatest Player Who Never Lived a truly rare birdie then. It's a thrilling golf novel that not only captu res the game, but transcends it. J. Michael Veron's engaging fantasy begins when young law student Charley Hunter accepts a summer internship at the Atlanta law firm in which the gr eat Bobby Jones was once a partner. Assigned to catalog Jones's dusty file s, Hunter comes upon an intriguing correspondence that hints at an extraor dinary story. True to his name, Hunter then sets out to learn the truth be hind the unlikely exchange of letters between Jones, golf's erudite and no npareil pillar, and a semiliterate phenom named Beau Stedman, who, on the verge of golfing greatness in the early '30s, disappeared under the cloud of a murder charge. With Jones's secret help and support, Beau manages to survive. A fugitive determined to honor his golfing destiny, he emerges he re and there to play the greatest golfers of the era. Hunter isn't satisfi ed just with uncovering Beau's past, though; his obsession turns into a se arch for Beau's present, with unexpected complications. The novel is filled with lots of good golf, and with good writing about golf's enigmatic hold on those captivated by the game. But Veron, a Harvard-educated lawyer, aims beyond golf here--and holes it. In Player, he's crafted a so.

Product Info

ISBN: 1886947899

ISBN-13: 9781886947894

Publisher: Gale Group

Year: 2000

Type: Used

Binding: Softcover

Seller Info

InfinityBooksJapan

Address: 1F Komagata Heights Bldg Tokyo,

Website: https://www.infinitybooksjapan.com

Country: Japan