Overview
In 1977, Lorne Rubenstein, an avid golfer, travelled to Dornoch in the Scottish Highlands. Young and adrift in life, he was profoundly affected by the experience. As he writes, 'My week in Dornoch introduced me to a place with which I felt a connection. A week wasn't living there, but it was enough for Dornoch to imprint itself on my mind.' Twenty-three years later, in 2000, now an established golf writer, Rubenstein returned to Dornoch to spend an entire summer. He rented a flat close to the Royal Dornoch Golf Club and set out to explore the area on many levels. Rubenstein writes about the melancholy history of the Highland Clearances, which have left the beautiful landscape sparsely populated to this day. He writes about the friendly and sometimes eccentric people who love their town, their golf and their single malt whisky, and who delight in sharing them with visitors. But most of all he writes about a summer lived in a community where golf is king and the golf course is part of the common lands where townspeople stroll of an evening. Rubenstein is able to return to thinking of golf as play, as opposed to a game of analysis and effort. A Season in Dornoch is an affectionate portrait of a place and the people who live there, a fascinating look at golf and the spirit and skills it calls forth, and a perceptive and ultimately moving memoir of one man's quest to experience again the pure love of sport that he knew in his youth.
Full Product Details
Author: Lorne Rubenstein ,
Connery, Sean
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
Imprint: Mainstream Publishing
Dimensions:
Width: 12.90cm
, Height: 1.60cm
, Length: 19.80cm
Weight: 0.181kg
ISBN: 9781840187052
ISBN 10: 1840187050
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 20 March 2003
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Reviews
Rubenstein gives the reader a feel for what makes the appeal of the Highlands so enduring. He brings the place and its people to life -- Tom Watson, Five-Time British Open Champion One of golf's most gifted writers has done every fan of the game a great and entertaining service -- James Dodson, Author Of Final Rounds
Rubenstein gives the reader a feel for what makes the appeal of the Highlands so enduring. He brings the place and its people to life -- Tom Watson, five-time British Open champion One of golf's most gifted writers has done every fan of the game a great and entertaining service -- James Dodson, author of Final Rounds
Author Information
Lorne Rubenstein has written a golf column for Golf and Mail since 1980. He is the author of many books and has won the National Magazine Award in Canada and three first-place awards from the Golf Writers Association of America.
