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Learn moreFrom Sports Illustrated writer Rick Reilly comes this spoof of all things golf and country club. Missing Links is the story of four middle-class buddies who live outside Boston and play golf together at Ponkaquoque Municipal Course and Deli, not so fondly known as Ponky. An eighteen-hole garbage dump with hazards that include a concrete river surrounded by a chain-link fence and the pillars of the elevated train track that runs through the course, it is reputed to be the worst golf course in America. Just adjacent to the municipal course lies the Mayflower Country Club, the most exclusive private course in all of Boston. The rollicking plot includes a bet to see who will be first to sneak in a round at the Mayflower, as well as the narrator’s attempts to reach some sort of reasonable understanding with his overbearing father.
Rick Reilly, screenwriter and author, worked for years for Sports Illustrated and ESPN. In addition to being voted the NSMA National Sportswriter of the Year eleven times, he has also been recognized with the Damon Runyon Award for Outstanding Contributions to Journalism. USA Today called him, “the closest thing sportswriting ever had to a rock star.”
Bronson Pinchot, Audible’s Narrator of the Year for 2010, has won Publishers Weekly Listen-Up Awards, AudioFile Earphones Awards, Audible’s Book of the Year Award, and Audie Awards for several audiobooks, including Matterhorn, Wise Blood, Occupied City, and The Learners. A magna cum laude graduate of Yale, he is an Emmy- and People’s Choice-nominated veteran of movies, television, and Broadway and West End shows. His performance of Malvolio in Twelfth Night was named the highlight of the entire two-year Kennedy Center Shakespeare Festival by the Washington Post. He attended the acting programs at Shakespeare & Company and Circle-in-the-Square, logged in well over 200 episodes of television, starred or costarred in a bouquet of films, plays, musicals, and Shakespeare on Broadway and in London, and developed a passion for Greek revival architecture.
Reviews
“You don’t need to know your bogeys from your birdies to find at least three laughs per page in this novel.”
“Part Damon Runyon, part Raymond Chandler, and part Caddyshack…I was hooked for the full 18.”
“Snappy prose, believable characters, and the funniest take on blue-collar hacking and gambling since Dan Jenkins’ The Glory Game at Goat Hill…it’s social satire and pure irreverence that keep this story in the groove.”
“A great piece of fiction.”
“If you’re obsessed with the ‘green game,’ and it's raining or snowing, or we’re under nuclear attack so you can’t get out on the course, Missing Links should give you a temporary fix.”
“Easily the wittiest golf novel yet—the Bull Durham of the genre, and the closest thing to Caddyshack on paper we’re likely to get…A loving, knowledgeable, laugh-out-loud portrait of the Hardest Sport There Is, as practiced by the blue-collar rakes who compose golf’s most devoted fans.”
“Don’t get started reading this book. It will take three burly men to pull you away from it.”
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