By the author of "Curious Journey: An Oral History of Ireland's Unfinished Revolution", this novel is set in Ireland and centres on Synott, a middle-aged man who discovers a 12th-century book with which he is able to unlock the past. He is led on a journey to the roots of his family and culture.

MOTHERLAND

Literature & Fiction

O'Grady, Timothy

Contemporary

RANDOM HOUSE UK

Divine Magnetic Lands: A Journey in America

In 1973, at age 22, Timothy O'Grady left America for Europe. Over the next 30 years he watched as the American counter-culture crashed, wars were declared, and the country was attacked by air. Much of the world began to look at America in a new way and to wonder where the great democracy was heading. In an effort to solve this riddle, O’Grady returned to his native land in order to travel more than 15,000 miles through 35 states. He met academics, the homeless, war veterans, political activists, New Orleans rappers, billionaires, novelists, and a Ku Klux Klansman. At every city and town, there seemed to be a slightly different understanding of what America was, and where it was going. Part travelogue, part history, and part social study, this is a fascinating, grassroots investigation of the state of the country today.

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Light

Literary

Vintage

  "A striking meditation that stylishly links his father, Arnold Palmer, Golf in the Kingdom, and the fragility of the swing."---Sports Illustrated Since being initiated as a child into the arcane mysteries of the game of golf, Timothy O'Grady has carried in his mind an obsession with the sport---embracing its history, literature, and even his own private battle with the club. On Golf is a personal history of O'Grady's obsession with golf, from its domination of his teenage years, to the glorious occasion when he played a round with Arnold Palmer. Above all, it was the bond of golf that he shared with his father, who gave him his first club when he was only two years old. Forty years later as the old man lay on his deathbed; father and son were still talking about the game.Timothy O'Grady still dreams that he may one day become a truly fine player but in the meantime he has given us a book that beautifully describes his love affair with the game and goes to the root of the obsession that captivates so many.

On Golf

Sports & Outdoors

Golf

Yellow Jersey Press

"A striking meditation that stylishly links his father, Arnold Palmer, Golf in the Kingdom, and the fragility of the swing." ---Sports Illustrated Since being initiated as a child into the arcane mysteries of the game of golf, Timothy O'Grady has carried in his mind an obsession with the sport---embracing its history, literature, and even his own private battle with the club. On Golf is a personal history of O'Grady's obsession with golf, from its domination of his teenage years, to the glorious occasion when he played a round with Arnold Palmer. Above all, it was the bond of golf that he shared with his father, who gave him his first club when he was only two years old. Forty years later as the old man lay on his deathbed; father and son were still talking about the game. Timothy O'Grady still dreams that he may one day become a truly fine player but in the meantime he has given us a book that beautifully describes his love affair with the game and goes to the root of the obsession that captivates so many.

On Golf: The Game, the Players, and a Personal History of Obsession

Thomas Dunne Books

"A striking meditation that stylishly links his father, Arnold Palmer, Golf in the Kingdom, and the fragility of the swing." ---Sports Illustrated Since being initiated as a child into the arcane mysteries of the game of golf, Timothy O'Grady has carried in his mind an obsession with the sport---embracing its history, literature, and even his own private battle with the club. On Golf is a personal history of O'Grady's obsession with golf, from its domination of his teenage years, to the glorious occasion when he played a round with Arnold Palmer. Above all, it was the bond of golf that he shared with his father, who gave him his first club when he was only two years old. Forty years later as the old man lay on his deathbed; father and son were still talking about the game. Timothy O'Grady still dreams that he may one day become a truly fine player but in the meantime he has given us a book that beautifully describes his love affair with the game and goes to the root of the obsession that captivates so many.

Biographies

St. Martin's: Griffin

With the aid of his dying grandfather and tamed monkey, a writer searches for his mother across time, space, and reality, journeying to a troubled Ireland

Motherland

Anchor

In 1973, at the age of 22, Timothy O'Grady left America for Europe. He had grown up through the time of moonshots and protest marches, new music and unprecedented economic expansion, and of hopes for a new society, a new democracy, and a new kind of man. For the next 30 years he lived in and wrote about Europe. As he did, the American counterculture crashed, Ronald Reagan came and went, wars were declared, and the country was attacked by air. Much of the world began to look at America in a new way, wondering what had happened to it and where it was going. Among them was Timothy O'Grady, and he decided to go back and investigate. Following in the footsteps of such Europeans as de Tocqueville, Dickens, and Simone de Beauvoir, and such Americans as Henry Miller, Kerouac, Steinbeck, and Woody Guthrie, he went out onto the American road, traveling more than 15,000 miles through 35 states. He met academics, the homeless, war veterans, political activists, New Orleans rappers, billionaires, novelists, and a Ku Klux Klansman. A Yale legal historian told him why there are a million lawyers in America, a Chicago broker how executive pay is set and how the lobbying system works in Washington, and a Salvadorean gang member how life is on the streets of East Los Angeles. In every bar he stopped in, it seemed, there was a story of American life to be heard. Using history, memoir, state-of-the-nation analysis and a novelist's skill at evoking places and people, Divine Magnetic Lands presents a picture of America as it evolved and how it is at the beginning of the 21st century.

With the aid of his dying grandfather and a tamed monkey, a writer searches for his mother across time, space, and reality, journeying to a troubled Ireland

Henry Holt Co.

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Divine Magnetic Lands: A Journey in America

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On Golf

On Golf

On Golf: The Game, the Players, and a Personal History of Obsession

On Golf: The Game, the Players, and a Personal History of Obsession

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Divine Magnetic Lands: A Journey in America

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