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Wodehouse and golf: a magnificent duo just in time for Father's Day!
Wodehouse on Golf
by P.G. Wodehouse
Offered together for the first time, this handsome two-book package makes the ideal gift for anyone who's ever swung a club! Join Sandy McHoots, Ramsden Waters, Rollo Podmarsh, and the rest of P. G. Wodehouse's uproarious characters as they duff, dive, and hack their way through a series of rollicking misadventures on the green. These marvelously witty and engaging books are so packed with golfing fun that no golf lover or Wodehouse fan will be able to put them down!
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Scriptwriter, playwright, and one of the most beloved comic writers in the English language, P. G. Wodehouse's command of farce and social satire is legendary. He is lauded the world over for his clever and richly funny send-ups of the idle rich in Edwardian England. His novels offer virtually everything a reader could ask for: sharply drawn characters, intriguing stories, and exquisite prose - not to mention generous doses of pithy humor and aristocratic satire. All his remarkable talents are on abundant and rollicking display in these two handsomely published volumes, The Heart of A Goof and The Clicking of Cuthbert.
The Heart of A Goof offers nine of Wodehouse's ripest stories from the 1920s, in which the characters are united by a mutual (and frequently obsessive) love for of golf. From Rodney Spelvin, the sickeningly good-looking romantic poet who comes to his senses when he discovers the game, to Rollo Podmarsh, who finishes his round even when he thinks himself fatally poisoned, and Chester Meredith, who discovers eloquence on the eighteenth green, we meet the full range of humanity in fair weather and foul.
The Clicking of Cuthbert features still more high comedy from the noble and ancient game of golf! Even golf-haters will be unable to resist the combination of physical farce, verbal wit, and the gallery of good-hearted but frequently bumbling characters. Many of the stories center on the perennial war in every golfing man's soul between the game he loves and the woman he loves - including two devoted to the adventures of Mortimer Sturgis, who takes up golf to please his fiancée, only to find that it quickly becomes far more interesting and important to him than she is.
Each volume has been freshly typeset and printed on Scottish cream-wove, acid free paper, sewn and bound in cloth - making them elegant and essential additions to the library of any golfer, any Wodehouse fan, and anyone who appreciates top-drawer comic writing.
From The Heart of a Goof:
"It was a morning when all nature shouted ‘Fore!' The breeze, as it blew gently up from the valley, seemed to bring a message of hope and cheer, whispering of chip-shots holed and brassies landing squarely on the meat. The fairway, as yet unscarred by the irons of a hundred dubs, smiled gently up at the azure sky; and the sun, peeping above the trees, looked like a giant golf-ball perfectly lofted by the mashie of some unseen god and about to drop dead by the pin of the eighteenth. It was the day of the opening of the course after the long winter, and a crowd of considerable dimensions had collected at the first tee."
From The Clicking of Cuthbert:
"This book marks an epoch in my literary career. It is written in blood. It is the outpouring of a soul as deeply seared by Fate's unkindness as the pretty on the dog-leg hole of the second nine was ever seared by my iron. It is the work of a very nearly desperate man, an eighteen-handicap man who has got to look extremely slippy if he doesn't want to find himself in the twenties again."
"A brilliantly funny writer -- perhaps the most consistently funny the English language has yet produced." -- The Times (London)
"Wodehouse's idyllic world can never stale....He has made a world for us to live in and delight in." -- Evelyn Waugh
"The works of Wodehouse continue on their unique way, unmarked by the passage of time." -- Kingsley Amis
"His novels are the very definition of British humor -- bubblingly witty and dryly loony. Overlook Press continues its reissue of a handful of these absurd soufflés. You can buy the work for yourself in suave hardcover volumes, the dust jackets as natty as the prose." -- Entertainment Weekly
"When Overlook Press repackaged a line of titles by the British humorist P.G. Wodehouse, the house devoted great attention to producing high-quality editions of the books -- which feature full cloth covers and beautiful, striped endpapers." -- Publishers Weekly
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