The Grand Slam: Bobby Jones, America and the story of golf

Awards:   Short-listed for British Sports Book Awards 2005 (UK) Short-listed for British Sports Book Awards: Autobiography 2005 Shortlisted for British Sports Book Awards: Autobiography 2005.
Author:   Mark Frost
Publisher:   Little, Brown Book Group
Edition:   New edition
ISBN:  

9780751535754


Pages:   448
Publication Date:   06 July 2006
Format:   Paperback
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Awards

  • Short-listed for British Sports Book Awards 2005 (UK)
  • Short-listed for British Sports Book Awards: Autobiography 2005
  • Shortlisted for British Sports Book Awards: Autobiography 2005.

Overview

In the wake of the 1929 stock market crash, an amateur golfer began a decade of unparalleled achievement, seeming a ray of light in an otherwise depressed America. Bobby Jones won the British Amateur Championship, the British Open, the US Open and the US Amateur Championship. A new phrase was born: The Grand Slam. A modest, sensitive man, a lawyer from a middle-class Atlanta family, Bobby Jones had barely survived a sickly childhood, and took up golf at the age of five for health reasons. Jones made his debut at the US Amateur Championship in 1916 and his genius was recognised by his inspiration, Francis Ouimet. However, his health was never good, and the strain of completing the Slam exacted a ferocious toll; the US Open, played in July in blazing heat, nearly killed him. Jones fought to keep his fragile condition a secret from a country suffering from the Depression, but at the age of twenty-eight, after winning the US Amateur, he retired. His abrupt disappearance at the height of his renown inspired an impenetrable myth, to this day still fiercely protected by family and friends.

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Author:   Mark Frost
Publisher:   Little, Brown Book Group
Imprint:   Sphere
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 19.80cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 12.60cm
Weight:   0.310kg
ISBN:  

9780751535754


ISBN 10:   0751535753
Pages:   448
Publication Date:   06 July 2006
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us.

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[Mark Frost's] first book on golf was, darn it, as close to perfection as any author can hope to attain ... [THE GRAND SLAM] is unquestionably the golf book of the year IRISH TIMES The second book, like the second album, is supposed to be the hard one and after the massive success of THE GREATEST GAME EVER PLAYED critics doubted Frost's ability to pull it off again. He has in this wonderful bio of Bobby Jones, the first man to lay IRISH INDEPENDENT, Top 20 Sports Books of 2004 Fascinating ... superb GOLF WEEKLY [THE GRAND SLAM] will be read with pleasure in the afterglow of refreshment at the nineteenth hole Spectator


*'[This book] will be read with pleasure in the afterglow of refreshment at the 19th hole' SPECTATOR *'Mark Frost has come up trumps with this intriguing tale about the life and career of golf's most lauded amateur, Bobby Jones. Frost's tribute to the gre '[Mark Frost's] first book on golf was, darn it, as close to perfection as any author can hope to attain ... [THE GRAND SLAM] is unquestionably the golf book of the year' IRISH TIMES 'The second book, like the second album, is supposed to be the hard one and after the massive success of THE GREATEST GAME EVER PLAYED critics doubted Frost's ability to pull it off again. He has in this wonderful bio of Bobby Jones, the first man to lay successful siege to the Impregnable Quadrilateral (more prosaically, the Grand Slam). Weaving social and personal history and writing in that picture-evoking, limpid style and cinematographic manner that becomes the former writer/producer of Hill Street Blues and Twin Peaks, Frost evokes the man and the magic moment. Top Drawer!' IRISH INDEPENDENT, Top 20 Sports Books of 2004 'Fascinating ... superb' GOLF WEEKLY


Author Information

Mark Frost is the author of THE GREATEST GAME EVER PLAYED, THE LIST OF SEVEN, THE SIX MESSIAHS and BEFORE I WAKE. He has written and produced several television series, including Hill Street Blues and Twin Peaks.

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