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Kensington
March 2007
On Sale: March 1, 2007
256 pages
ISBN: 0758212704
EAN: 9780758212702
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"So...why should I save you?" That's the question Elliott
Goodman hears in the OR as he's about to have emergency
surgery following a heart attack. But it isn't Elliott's
surgeon who's asking. It's God. As in The Almighty. And God
has a wager for Elliott. He challenges him to an
eighteen-hole golf match. If Elliott wins, he is saved; if
he loses...So begins this witty, insightful, very funny, and
wholly unique novel about golf and life and the lessons
learned from both. To be fair (isn't He always?), God sends
down eighteen legendary opponents to play against Elliott
and hopefully teach him a few tricks along the way. From
Leonardo da Vinci (nice clubs) to Marilyn Monroe
(nice...everything), Babe Ruth (pass the hot dogs), Abraham
Lincoln (cheater!), and fourteen other luminaries, including
Moses, John Lennon, Joan of Arc, Picasso, W.C. Fields,
Socrates, Babe Didrikson Zaharias, Beethoven, Gandhi, and
Shakespeare, Elliott squares off against some of the most
extraordinary people who've ever lived. As shots are
analyzed, balls enter bunkers, and Freud drives the cart
(control freak), Elliott has a chance to examine his life
and his form, to see what he can correct or improve before
meeting his ultimate challenger. Bighearted and delightfully
original, Bob Mitchell's "Match made in Heaven" is a grand
celebration of golf and a profound parable of travelling our
own personal fairways in a game where no effort is wasted,
and every failure is just another chance to try again.
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