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Still Me: A Golf Tragedy in 18 Parts
Nominated for the Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction - Manitoba Book Awards 2021
Golf is the only way I know to control time. It happens in the millisecond of that focused backswing, right before the violence of intention.When I escape time, I escape memory. In that way, golf is an alchemy. A magick. I am a practicing magician.When James Khoury discovers that his prized golf memorabilia from some of Canada's best golf courses has been destroyed, he journeys back through memories of being on the fairway, his struggles with gnawing ineptitude, and a troubled relationship with his wife and son.
Slowly, his memory precipitates to reveal something deeper at work, and James finds himself in the midst of a game where the stakes couldn't be higher.
Golf is the only way I know to control time. It happens in the millisecond of that focused backswing, right before the violence of intention.When I escape time, I escape memory. In that way, golf is an alchemy. A magick. I am a practicing magician.When James Khoury discovers that his prized golf memorabilia from some of Canada's best golf courses has been destroyed, he journeys back through memories of being on the fairway, his struggles with gnawing ineptitude, and a troubled relationship with his wife and son.
Slowly, his memory precipitates to reveal something deeper at work, and James finds himself in the midst of a game where the stakes couldn't be higher.
272 pages, Paperback
Published October 1, 2020
About the author
Jeffrey John Eyamie
5 books21 followersJeffrey John Eyamie is an Anglophone Quebecois writer of Lebanese-Syrian descent.
Jeff works, writes and lives in Winnipeg, Canada.
Jeff works, writes and lives in Winnipeg, Canada.
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May 5, 2021
I evaluated this book for the Fiction category of the High Plains Book Awards.
Golf is the only way I know to control time. It happens in the millisecond of that focused backswing, right before the violence of intention.When I escape time, I escape memory. In that way, golf is an alchemy. A magick. I am a practicing magician.When James Khoury discovers that his prized golf memorabilia from some of Canada's best golf courses has been destroyed, he journeys back through memories of being on the fairway, his struggles with gnawing ineptitude, and a troubled relationship with his wife and son.
Slowly, his memory precipitates to reveal something deeper at work, and James finds himself in the midst of a game where the stakes couldn't be higher.
Golf is the only way I know to control time. It happens in the millisecond of that focused backswing, right before the violence of intention.When I escape time, I escape memory. In that way, golf is an alchemy. A magick. I am a practicing magician.When James Khoury discovers that his prized golf memorabilia from some of Canada's best golf courses has been destroyed, he journeys back through memories of being on the fairway, his struggles with gnawing ineptitude, and a troubled relationship with his wife and son.
Slowly, his memory precipitates to reveal something deeper at work, and James finds himself in the midst of a game where the stakes couldn't be higher.
September 20, 2021
Couldn't finish. For middle age white golfing dads only. Which I'm not.
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