Albatross
✍ Scribed by Terry Fallis
- Book ID
- 100093079
- Publisher
- McClelland & Stewart
- Year
- 2019
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 185 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0771050976
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✦ Synopsis
From two-time Leacock Medal winner Terry Fallis comes a funny and smart new novel about destiny --and what it means to forge your own path.
Adam Coryell is your average high-school student--well, except for that obsession with fountain pens--when his life changes forever. Based on a study by a quirky Swedish professor that claims that every human being, regardless of athletic inclination, has a body that is suited to excel in at least one sport, it turns out that Adam is good--very good, in fact--at golf. Even though he'd never even picked up a golf club.
Almost instantly, and with his coach, hard-nosed Bobbie Davenport by his side, Adam and his new-found talent skyrocket to a prodigy-level stardom that includes tournament titles, sponsorship deals, throngs of fans following his every move, and fodder for tabloids.
But here's the catch: Adam doesn't really like...
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