The Clicking of Cuthbert
Cuthbert is helplessly in love with Adeline, but what use are his holes in one when she's in thrall to Culture and prefers rising young writers to winners of the French Open? But enter a Great Russian Novelist with a strange passion, and Cuthbert's prospects are transformed.
Cuthbert is helplessly in love with Adeline, but what use are his holes in one when she's in thrall to Culture and prefers rising young writers to winners of the French Open? But enter a Great Russian Novelist with a strange passion, and Cuthbert's prospects are transformed.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780099513865 (0099513862)
Publish date: May 1st 2008
Publisher: Arrow
Pages no: 224
Edition language: English
Series: Golf Stories (#1)
What a charming little collection of golf-related yarns. As I may have mentioned, although I don't play at all I'm a moderately fluent speaker of golf. (Thanks be to Wikipedia for the translations for the old fashioned names of clubs that preceded the current, rather prosaic numbering system.) Thi...
These pretend to be golf stories, but they aren't. They're the same old delightful Wodehouse: the right sort of young man is pining for a girl, difficulties ensue, he gets the girl anyway. And there's a lot of golf club paraphernalia lying about, and golf games of great importance in settling the ma...