Synopses & Reviews
The hilarious and bestselling author of A Course Called Ireland puts down the golf clubs , laces up his running shoes, and trains for his first marathon.
An estimated half a million people run in marathons each year, and untold millions more sacrifice their knees, dollars, and free time aspiring to join this elite club. Tom Coyne has a simple question for them: Why?
With the same do-or-die attitude that he brought to Paper Tiger, Coyne conquered a lifelong disdain for exercise to train for and run in the 2010 Marathon de Paris. And he didnandrsquo;t do it alone. He bribed a group of fitness misfits with an all-expenses-paid trip to the race. His teamandrsquo;s qualifications? No distance runners and no one currently training or even in very good shape. Coyne chronicles the evolution of a beer-sculpted limey, a breast cancer survivor, a two-pack-a-day waitress, and himselfandmdash;a gangly golfer with a love for tailgatingandmdash;into endurance runners. En route, he examines how high-tech energy supplements, running shoes, and GPS devices have turned the sport into a complex and profitable industry.
Written in Coyneandrsquo;s breezy trademark style, and full of insights on the science of training and runner psychology, Bury Me at the Finish Line is an entertaining, enlightening, and inspirational addition to a booming category.
Synopsis
A Gentleman's Game is the story of young Timmy Price, whose mastery of the game of golf inspires awe among the adult membership and envy among his peers on the shaded fairways and immaculate greens of exclusive Fox Chase Country Club. But when his self-made father forces Timmy to become a caddy at the club to teach him a lesson in humility, he is thrown into the hardscrabble world of the behind-the-scenes workers who make the game possible. And when his best friend and fellow looper, Jamie Byrne, abruptly stops showing up at the caddy hole, it begins a series of events that will force Timmy to confront the dark secret that hides behind the community of Fox Chase. Soaring and lyrical, A Gentleman's Game is an internationally acclaimed debut about an extraordinary young man and the game he loves that is like no other. "A stunning first novel.... It will make you love language. And it might help you understand what a man wants." -- Melissa Katsoulis, The Times (London) "An emerging writer's master stroke." -- Gary Mullinax, Wilmington News Journal "A Gentleman's Game has tremendous heart.... A book about fathers and sons, and a great one at that." -- Joey Sweeney, Philadelphia Weekly
Synopsis
The hilarious and bestselling author of A Course Called Ireland puts down the golf clubs , laces up his running shoes, and trains for his first marathon.
An estimated half a million people run in marathons each year, and untold millions more sacrifice their knees, dollars, and free time aspiring to join this elite club. Tom Coyne has a simple question for them: Why?
With the same do-or-die attitude that he brought to Paper Tiger, Coyne conquered a lifelong disdain for exercise to train for and run in the 2010 Marathon de Paris. And he didnandrsquo;t do it alone. He bribed a group of fitness misfits with an all-expenses-paid trip to the race. His teamandrsquo;s qualifications? No distance runners and no one currently training or even in very good shape. Coyne chronicles the evolution of a beer-sculpted limey, a breast cancer survivor, a two-pack-a-day waitress, and himselfandmdash;a gangly golfer with a love for tailgatingandmdash;into endurance runners. En route, he examines how high-tech energy supplements, running shoes, and GPS devices have turned the sport into a complex and profitable industry.
Written in Coyneandrsquo;s breezy trademark style, and full of insights on the science of training and runner psychology, Bury Me at the Finish Line is an entertaining, enlightening, and inspirational addition to a booming category.
About the Author
Tom Coyne has written for Golf Magazine and Golf Digest. He is the author of Paper Tiger, A Course Called Ireland, as well as the novel A Gentlemanandrsquo;s Game. and#160;He lives in Philadelphia.