**A powerful, epic novel of four friends as they grapple with desire, youth, death, and faith in a sweeping story by the international bestselling author of*The Solitude of Prime Numbers*** Every summer Teresa follows her father to his childhood home in Puglia, down in the heel of Italy, a land
Golfing with God: A Novel of Heaven and Earth
β Scribed by Roland Merullo
- Book ID
- 110670216
- Publisher
- Workman Publishing
- Year
- 2007
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 594 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781565125919
- ASIN
- B003I1WY2U
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β¦ Synopsis
This witty tale is an "engaging story of golf, the after-life and 'the spiritual education of one soul'" (Publishers Weekly).
Herman "Hank" Fins-Winston was a professional golfer destined for greatness. Now he lives in a condominium on the thirteenth fairway of one of heaven's glorious coursesβa fact he finds surprising, since for one reason or another, a fair percentage of golfers never make it to paradise . . . and Hank wasn't exactly an angel on Earth.
Hank is having the time of his afterlife, until he's summoned one idyllic morning to play a round with the Almighty. It seems that God is having some trouble with putting. As they play the heavenly courses, both in paradise and back on earth, Hank comes to realize that what began as a golf lesson has become a true spiritual journey . . .
"Merullo, author of the critically acclaimed Revere Beach trilogy, writes with wit and subtlety rather than trying to pound inspiration into our heads with a titanium driver. And, best of all, he gets the golf right: precise, well-constructed descriptions of courses and shot making, revealing a respect for the game itself, not just its potential as metaphor." βBooklist
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