Match Made in Heaven
by Bob Mitchell
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Author: Bob MitchellEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2006-05-01
ISBN: 0758212690
Number of pages: 256
Publisher: Kensington Books
Summary of Match Made in Heaven
"So...why should I save you?" That's the question Elliott Goodman hears in the OR as he's about to have emergency surgery following a heart attack. But it isn't Elliott's surgeon who's asking. It's God. As in The Almighty. And God has a wager for Elliott. He challenges him to an eighteen-hole golf match. If Elliott wins, he is saved; if he loses...So begins this witty, insightful, very funny, and wholly unique novel about golf and life and the lessons learned from both. To be fair (isn't He always?), God sends down eighteen legendary opponents to play against Elliott and hopefully teach him a few tricks along the way. From Leonardo da Vinci (nice clubs) to Marilyn Monroe (nice...everything), Babe Ruth (pass the hot dogs), Abraham Lincoln (cheater!), and fourteen other luminaries, including Moses, John Lennon, Joan of Arc, Picasso, W.C. Fields, Socrates, Babe Didrikson Zaharias, Beethoven, Gandhi, and Shakespeare, Elliott squares off against some of the most extraordinary people who've ever lived. As shots are analyzed, balls enter bunkers, and Freud drives the cart (control freak), Elliott has a chance to examine his life and his form, to see what he can correct or improve before meeting his ultimate challenger. Bighearted and delightfully original, Bob Mitchell's "Match made in Heaven" is a grand celebration of golf and a profound parable of travelling our own personal fairways in a game where no effort is wasted, and every failure is just another chance to try again.Sports Books
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