| Golf may be a game with character, but for too long it has lacked enough true characters. In Fairway To Hell, Franz Lidz takes a globe-girdling and wholly serendipitous journey in search of golf's real soul, visiting all the margins of that ancient and maddening game. Far removed from the usual golf magazine perspective, he finds unlikely heroes and wildly comical connections. Imagine playing a round with Bill Murray or Judas Priest, or hitting the links on an iceberg or in a nudist colony — though not at the same time. In the oddball tradition of P. G. Wodehouse's classic The Heart of a Goof and David Feherty's 2004 collection, Somewhere in Ireland, a Village is Missing it's Idiot, Lidz's dispatches are infused with a sense of the elegant and the absurd. In other words, a sense of golf. Hardcover. 176 pages. |
