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100 1 $aReilly, Rick.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88117813
245 10 $aMissing links /$cRick Reilly.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bDoubleday,$c[1996], ©1996.
300 $a278 pages ;$c25 cm
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520 $aRaymond Lee Hart - better known to his unshaven buddies as Stick - has a pretty good life, most of it spent at Ponkaquogue Municipal Golf Course and Deli, the single worst golf course in America. For Stick, Dannie, Two Down, Thud and the rest of the "Chops," Ponky is a little slice of paradise - if you picture paradise with a rusted-out '57 Chevy on the 8th hole and ninety-five-cent egg sandwiches waiting after the round.
520 8 $aMostly, the Chops like to bet, a habit that's about to get them into serious trouble.
520 8 $aJust adjacent to Ponky, over a twelve-foot-high hedge, lies the Mayflower Country Club, the most exclusive private club in all of Boston. For the Chops, it is both an irritant and a lure. Tortured by the Mayflower's immaculately manicured fairways and intrigued by its fanatical exclusivity, the Chops propose a bet. Stick, the devious Two Down, and the slyly beautiful Dannie, Stick's sometime bedmate, plunk down a thousand dollars each, a small fortune for people who sometimes take the bus to the course.
520 8 $aThe first to play all 18 holes at the Mayflower wins the pot. Lying, cheating and fraud are encouraged.
520 8 $a. But as each of these three pursue their quest - and one another's money - the charm of their odd friendships, and their strange loyalty to Ponky, begin to unravel. One of the three will win The Bet, but it seems a hollow victory.
520 8 $aMissing Links is a tremendously funny novel, but it is also a book wise in the ways of friendship and family, broken dreams and unexpected gifts. Above all, Missing Links is a long overdue tribute to those unsung heroes of the game of golf, the dog-meat public course and the incurables who play it.
650 0 $aGolf$xBetting$vFiction.
650 0 $aGolfers$vFiction.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008105030
655 7 $aHumorous fiction.$2gsafd
655 7 $aSports stories.$2gsafd
655 0 $aGolf stories.
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