Golfing with God: A Novel of Heaven and Earth

by Roland Merullo

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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 courses—a 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 show more 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." —Booklist

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Okay, so Hank Fins-Winston, a golf pro when he was alive, is summoned by God for help with His (or Her) golf game. They play courses on Heaven and Earth, with a fascinating array of fellow golfers (didja know that Jesus and Buddha are avid golfers?). Of course, the whole excursion is a teaching experience, and our narrator of the links is finally brought before God to learn the final phase of his millions of life cycles to date. I'm a bit of a sucker for books like this, and there's a surprising number of them. This is not the best of them, but it's not the worst, and was mostly enjoyable, occasionally profound, and frequently humorous.
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I'm not a golfer, but this book was very fun to read. And I was never quite sure how everything was going to turn out. It was also a very easy, quick read, which I liked since I could finish the book in 2 or 3 sittings. Kinda makes me want to pick up the sport, or find one thing in life that I am as good at as the main character was at golf...
Light and fast moving. Has a good chartacter and a intense plot. A real treat for a golfer and a touching book about looking at one's self and see how to improve.
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Preferred Breakfast with Budda.
This is a wonderful read. If you liked "Golf in the Kingdom" this book is for you too.

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Roland Merullo is the author of Revere Beach Boulevard, A Russian Requiem, and Leaving Losapas. He lives in western Massachusetts with his wife and daughters

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Fiction and Literature, General Fiction
DDC/MDS
813.54Literature & rhetoricAmerican literature in EnglishAmerican fiction in English1900-19991945-1999
LCC
PS3563 .E748 .G65Language and LiteratureAmerican literatureAmerican literatureIndividual authors1961-
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