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| A Son of the Game . . . a story of golf, going home, and sharing life's lessons |
| Author: James Dodson Hardcover: 292 pages List Price: $24.95 Availability: In Stock at Amazon Barnes & Noble |
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Synopsis:
When acclaimed golf writer James Dodson leaves his home in
Maine to revisit Pinehurst, North Carolina, where his father
first taught him the game that would shape his life and
career, he’s at a point where he has lost direction. But once
there, the curative power of the Sandhills region not only
helps him find a new career working for the local paper but
also reignites his flagging passion for the game of golf. And,
perhaps more significantly, it inspires him to try to pass along
to his teenage son the same sense of joy and contentment he
has found in the game, and to recall the many colorful and
lifelong friends he has met on the links
When acclaimed golf writer James Dodson leaves his home in
Maine to revisit Pinehurst, North Carolina, where his father
first taught him the game that would shape his life and
career, he’s at a point where he has lost direction. But once
there, the curative power of the Sandhills region not only
helps him find a new career working for the local paper but
also reignites his flagging passion for the game of golf. And,
perhaps more significantly, it inspires him to try to pass along
to his teenage son the same sense of joy and contentment he
has found in the game, and to recall the many colorful and
lifelong friends he has met on the links
| New for 2009 |
“Jim Dodson's new memoir reveals the depth of his love for golf,
fatherhood, and his ancestral home--the Sandhills of North
Carolina. A Son of the Game also showcases Jim's amazing skill
with a pen, and his wisdom about the human condition. This is a
wonderful book.” *****__Curt Sampson, author of The Slam:
Bobby Jones and the Price of Glory
James Dodson, author of the popular memoir Final Rounds
(1996), revisits fathers, sons, and golf with this story of his return
to Pinehurst, North Carolina, often considered the home of golf in
America. For Dodson, it is also his own home, the place where
his father introduced him to golf and where he hopes to inspire
the same passion for the game in his teenage son.
The fabled Sandhills, home not only to Pinehurst but also to
dozens of other world-class golf courses, prove the perfect tonic
for Dodson’s incipient midlife crisis, restoring both his sense of
his past and his love of golf. This slow-paced, eulogistic memoir
draws on the deep, near-archetypal feelings that dedicated
golfers have for the game, its history, and their own connections
to the fathers and mentors who first put clubs in their hands. A
bit sentimental, to be sure, but, in Pinehurst, that’s the rub of the
green. ****__Bill Ott
This wise memoir about finding new meaning through an old sport
is filled with anecdotes about the history of the game and
of Pinehurst, the home of American golf, where many larger-than-
life legends played some of their greatest rounds. ****__John
Apple Bowman, III
James Dodson's bestselling memoir Final Rounds began in
Pinehurst twenty-five years ago, and now A Son of the Game
completes the circle as it follows his journey of discovery back to
where his love of the game began—a love that he hopes to make a
family legacy. *****__John E. Cashwell
fatherhood, and his ancestral home--the Sandhills of North
Carolina. A Son of the Game also showcases Jim's amazing skill
with a pen, and his wisdom about the human condition. This is a
wonderful book.” *****__Curt Sampson, author of The Slam:
Bobby Jones and the Price of Glory
James Dodson, author of the popular memoir Final Rounds
(1996), revisits fathers, sons, and golf with this story of his return
to Pinehurst, North Carolina, often considered the home of golf in
America. For Dodson, it is also his own home, the place where
his father introduced him to golf and where he hopes to inspire
the same passion for the game in his teenage son.
The fabled Sandhills, home not only to Pinehurst but also to
dozens of other world-class golf courses, prove the perfect tonic
for Dodson’s incipient midlife crisis, restoring both his sense of
his past and his love of golf. This slow-paced, eulogistic memoir
draws on the deep, near-archetypal feelings that dedicated
golfers have for the game, its history, and their own connections
to the fathers and mentors who first put clubs in their hands. A
bit sentimental, to be sure, but, in Pinehurst, that’s the rub of the
green. ****__Bill Ott
This wise memoir about finding new meaning through an old sport
is filled with anecdotes about the history of the game and
of Pinehurst, the home of American golf, where many larger-than-
life legends played some of their greatest rounds. ****__John
Apple Bowman, III
James Dodson's bestselling memoir Final Rounds began in
Pinehurst twenty-five years ago, and now A Son of the Game
completes the circle as it follows his journey of discovery back to
where his love of the game began—a love that he hopes to make a
family legacy. *****__John E. Cashwell
About the Author
James Dodson's bestselling Final
Rounds was named the Golf Book
of the Year by the International
Network of Golf in 1996. He is the
author of six other books, including
A Golfer's Life, a collaboration with
Arnold Palmer that was a New York
Times bestseller, and the acclaimed
biography Ben Hogan: An American
Life. A multiple winner of the
prestigious Golf Writers of America
Award for the column he wrote for
Golf Magazine, and a recipient of
numerous other literary prizes,
Dodson now lives with his wife and
family in the Sandhills of North
Carolina.
Rounds was named the Golf Book
of the Year by the International
Network of Golf in 1996. He is the
author of six other books, including
A Golfer's Life, a collaboration with
Arnold Palmer that was a New York
Times bestseller, and the acclaimed
biography Ben Hogan: An American
Life. A multiple winner of the
prestigious Golf Writers of America
Award for the column he wrote for
Golf Magazine, and a recipient of
numerous other literary prizes,
Dodson now lives with his wife and
family in the Sandhills of North
Carolina.