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Zusatztext "In their roman à clef about Tiger Woods! Shipnuck and Bamberger thinly disguise as fiction plenty of gossip they've heard over their four decades! combined! covering the PGA Tour. . . . What's more relevant to the story! and to the readerincluding! possibly! Tiger Woods himselfis the way Tree approaches his post-scandal life. The authors' idealized version of Woods comes totally clean about his past mistakes. There are no staged interviews! no clipped or dodgy answers. Tree Tremont lets his guard down! even cracks a few jokes about the absurdity of his situation. He starts enjoying the company of his fellow players andgaspthe fans. Tree wins that Masters! his game even gets better! and yes! fans fall for him all over again. . . .When reading The Swinger ! you can't help but wonder: what if Tiger were more like Tree? Time magazine Informationen zum Autor Michael Bamberger and Alan Shipnuck Klappentext A wickedly funny roman a clef of the PGA tour, this is "an entertaining, revealing, thought-provoking, and cautionary tale" ("The New York Times") from two of today's most highly regarded sportswriters. Zusammenfassung A sports hero seeks a comeback in this wildly funny and ultimately redemptive novel. His name! as we all know! is Herbert X. Tree Tremont! and he's the richest and most celebrated athlete of our timea multicultural golfing icon with fifty-three Tour wins! thirteen major victories! a smoking hot wife! and two adorable kids. But when a reporter uncovers evidence that Tree's sexual appetites are as prodigious as his tee shots! his public and private lives collide! producing the juiciest scandal in sports history. In this wickedly funny novel that takes readers between the ropes and the sheets of the PGA Tour as never before! the only thing more entertaining than Tree's downfall is his quest for redemption.
"In their roman à clef about Tiger Woods, Shipnuck and Bamberger thinly disguise as fiction plenty of gossip they've heard over their four decades, combined, covering the PGA Tour. . . . What’s more relevant to the story, and to the reader—including, possibly, Tiger Woods himself—is the way Tree approaches his post-scandal life. The authors’ idealized version of Woods comes totally clean about his past mistakes. There are no staged interviews, no clipped or dodgy answers. Tree Tremont lets his guard down, even cracks a few jokes about the absurdity of his situation. He starts enjoying the company of his fellow players and—gasp—the fans. Tree wins that Masters, his game even gets better, and yes, fans fall for him all over again. . . .When reading The Swinger, you can’t help but wonder: what if Tiger were more like Tree?” —Time magazine
Auteur
Michael Bamberger was born in Patchogue, New York, in 1960. After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania in 1982, he spent a more than a decade as a newspaper reporter, followed by twenty-two years at Sports Illustrated. He has written nine books, including the New York Times bestseller Men in Green, The Ball in the Air, The Second Life of Tiger Woods, To the Linksland, as well as a play, Bart & Fay. His work has appeared in The Best American Sports Writing and other anthologies. In 2022, Bamberger received the Memorial Golf Journalism Award at Jack Nicklaus’s annual tournament.
Texte du rabat
A wickedly funny roman a clef of the PGA tour, this is "an entertaining, revealing, thought-provoking, and cautionary tale" ("The New York Times") from two of today's most highly regarded sportswriters.
Résumé
A sports hero seeks a comeback in this wildly funny and ultimately redemptive novel.
His name, as we all know, is Herbert X. “Tree” Tremont, and he’s the richest and most celebrated athlete of our time—a multicultural golfing icon with fifty-three Tour wins, thirteen major victories, a smoking hot wife, and two adorable kids. But when a reporter uncovers evidence that Tree’s sexual appetites are as prodigious as his tee shots, his public and private lives collide, producing the juiciest scandal in sports history. In this wickedly funny novel that takes readers between the ropes and the sheets of the PGA Tour as never before, the only thing more entertaining than Tree’s downfall is his quest for redemption.