Library: Washington University (St. Louis, MO)
Last Loaded: 03/13/2008
MARC Timestamp: 05/26/2001
Control Number Org.: OCLC DEDUP
Control Number: 45356688
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050 00 $aPS3553.O98$bG46 2001
050 00 $aPS3553.O98$bG46 2001
082 00 $a813/.6$221
100 1 $aCoyne, Tom.
245 12 $aA gentleman's game /$cTom Coyne.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bAtlantic Monthly Press,$cc2001.
300 $a264 p. ;$c22 cm.
520 1 $a"It is the summer of 1985, and on the lush
fairways and immaculate greens of the exclusive Fox Chase
Country Club in suburban Delaware, Timmy Price is pure. His
fluid, powerful golf swing inspires awe among the adult
membership and envy among his peers, and under the tutelage
of the enigmatic guru Foster Pearse, he is beginning to
develop a complete game that will soon make him Junior
Champion of the state and draw the attention of college
recruiters.".
520 8 $a"But when his self-made father forces him to
become a caddy at the club to learn a lesson in humility,
Timmy is thrown into the hardscrabble world of the
behind-the-scenes workers who make the game possible. The
motley crew of loopers who inhabit the caddy hole introduce
him to the other side of the game he loves.
520 8 $aThere is the braggart lothario Position A, who
boasts of his sexual conquests of the members' wives;
Jeffrey, the heroin-addicted misfit from North Philly;
Lewis, the abusive and autocratic caddy master; and, above
all, Jamie Byrne, the secretive teenager from the wrong side
of town who has lost his thumbs in a mysterious accident and
quickly becomes Timmy's closet confidant.".
520 8 $a"As he progresses in his quest for excellence,
from tournament to elite golf camp and beyond, Timmy grows
in his appreciation of the price of failure - and the
dangers of success. And when Jamie begins missing his steady
loops at the course, it begins a series of events that will
rock his quiet suburban community to its very core."--BOOK
JACKET.
590 $aPurchased by the Carl Neureuther Endowed Book
Fund.
650 0 $aFathers and sons$vFiction.
650 0 $aCountry clubs$vFiction.
650 0 $aTeenage boys$vFiction.
650 0 $aGolfers$vFiction.
650 0 $aCaddies$vFiction.
651 0 $aDelaware$vFiction.
655 7 $aDomestic fiction.$2lcsh.
655 7 $aBildungsromans.$2gsafd.
655 7 $aGolf stories.$2lcsh.
791 2 $aCarl Neureuther Endowed Book Fund.$4donor.
902 $a010526AB0701
910 $aas
