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Sto caricando le informazioni... Preferred Lies: A Journey into the Heart of Scottish Golfdi Andrew Greig
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Disappointing for its stumbling themes and the author's professed love for golf yet general lack of appreciation for its history, customs, and rules. The edition I read had a number of unfortunate typographical errors, also an unforgivable misrepresentation of "Stapleford" [sic] scoring. The title defies explanation, and the loose ends and companions of the author's journey are most often just left along the road. ( ) I am not a golfer, but I come from a moderately keen golfing family, and live in Scotland, so I'm no stranger to the game. Even as a non-golfer, I found Greig's book interesting – it actually made me more enthusiastic about golf. However, I was mostly reading to learn both about Greig and some of the more unusual golf courses in Scotland. As ever, Greig's prose is beautiful, particularly his descriptions of scenery. My only criticism of this book is that it tailed off towards the end. I felt that Greig had decided that he was going to write about 18 golf courses, and then struggled to find the last 6 – in my opinion, he could have left out much of the 'hippy stuff'. An enjoyable read though. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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'A literary sports book, Preferred Lies would be playful, personal, lyrical, tongue in cheek, elegiac, meditative, a personal and cultural exploration.' Surely golf is a game for posh people, country clubs and networking businessmen, for unfortunate sweaters, politics and trousers? Andrew Greig grew up on the East coast of Scotland, where playing golf is as natural as breathing. He sees the game as the great leveller, and has played on the Old course at St Andrews as well as on the miners' courses of Yorkshire. He writes about the different cultural manifestations of the game, the history, the geography, the different social meanings, as well as the subjective experience, the reflections between shots. He plays alone, with friends and brothers, with ghosts. The aim is to bring the reader the sense of being there, to experience the physical, emotional and intellectual, that co-existence of inner and outer worlds so characteristic of golf. He is looking for the essence of golf, the pure heart of it, which can be found, Andrew Greig believes, on the free 9 hole course on North Ronaldsay. An indispensable book for golfers and non golfers alike. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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