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    Golfing with God: A Novel of Heaven and Earth

    By Roland Merullo

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    This witty tale is an “engaging story of golf, the after-life and ‘the spiritual education of one soul’” (Publishers Weekly).
     
    Herman “Hank” Fins-Winston was a professional golfer destined for greatness. Now he lives in a condominium on the thirteenth fairway of one of heaven’s glorious courses—a fact he finds surprising, since for one reason or another, a fair percentage of golfers never make it to paradise . . . and Hank wasn’t exactly an angel on Earth.
     
    Hank is having the time of his afterlife, until he’s summoned one idyllic morning to play a round with the Almighty. It seems that God is having some trouble with putting. As they play the heavenly courses, both in paradise and back on earth, Hank comes to realize that what began as a golf lesson has become a true spiritual journey . . .
     
    “Merullo, author of the critically acclaimed Revere Beach trilogy, writes with wit and subtlety rather than trying to pound inspiration into our heads with a titanium driver. And, best of all, he gets the golf right: precise, well-constructed descriptions of courses and shot making, revealing a respect for the game itself, not just its potential as metaphor.” —Booklist
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateMay 11, 2007
    ISBN9781565125919
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    Roland Merullo

    Roland Merullo is the bestselling author of more than twenty works of fiction and nonfiction, including Once Night Falls; The Delight of Being Ordinary; The Talk-Funny Girl, an Alex Award winner; Vatican Waltz, a Publishers Weekly Best Books of 2013 pick; Breakfast with Buddha, an international bestseller now in its twentieth printing; Lunch with Buddha, selected as one of the Best Books of 2013 by Kirkus Reviews; Revere Beach Boulevard, named one of the “Top 100 Essential Books of New England” by the Boston Globe; and Revere Beach Elegy, winner of the Massachusetts Book Award for nonfiction. Born in Boston and raised in Revere, Massachusetts, Roland attended Brown University, where he obtained a bachelor of arts in Russian studies and a master of arts in Russian language and literature. A former Peace Corps volunteer, he’s also made his living as a carpenter, college professor, and cabdriver. Roland, his wife, and their two lovely daughters live in the hills of western Massachusetts. For more information, visit www.rolandmerullo.com.

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    • 4/5
      I'm not a golfer, but this book was very fun to read. And I was never quite sure how everything was going to turn out. It was also a very easy, quick read, which I liked since I could finish the book in 2 or 3 sittings. Kinda makes me want to pick up the sport, or find one thing in life that I am as good at as the main character was at golf...
    • 4/5
      Okay, so Hank Fins-Winston, a golf pro when he was alive, is summoned by God for help with His (or Her) golf game. They play courses on Heaven and Earth, with a fascinating array of fellow golfers (didja know that Jesus and Buddha are avid golfers?). Of course, the whole excursion is a teaching experience, and our narrator of the links is finally brought before God to learn the final phase of his millions of life cycles to date. I'm a bit of a sucker for books like this, and there's a surprising number of them. This is not the best of them, but it's not the worst, and was mostly enjoyable, occasionally profound, and frequently humorous.
    • 5/5
      Light and fast moving. Has a good chartacter and a intense plot. A real treat for a golfer and a touching book about looking at one's self and see how to improve.