Downhill Lie A Hacker's Return to a Ruinous Sport

Name: Downhill Lie A Hacker's Return to a Ruinous Sport
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ISBN: 9780307266538

ISBN-10: 0307266532

ISBN-13: 9780307266538

Edition: 2008

Authors: Carl Hiaasen, Carl Hiaasen

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Ever wonder how to retrieve a sunken golf cart from a snake-infested lake? Or which club in your bag is best suited for combat against a horde of rats? If these and other sporting questions are gnawing at you,The Downhill Lie,Carl Hiaasen’s hilarious confessional about returning to the fairways after a thirty-two-year absence, is definitely the book for you. Originally drawn to the game by his father, Carl wisely quit golfing in 1973, when “Richard Nixon was hunkered down like a meth-crazed badger in the White House, Hank Aaron was one dinger shy of Babe Ruth’s all-time home run record, and The Who had just releasedQuadrophenia.” But some ambitions refuse to die, and as the years—and…

Book details

List price: $22.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 5/6/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 224
Size: 7.50" wide x 7.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Carl Hiaasen was born and raised in Florida, where he started writing after being given a typewriter at the age of six. He writes a column for the Miami Herald and is the author of many bestselling novels, including Razor Girl and Bad Monkey. His books for younger readers include the Newbery Honor winner Hoot, as well as Flush, Scat, Chomp, and Skink - No Surrender.