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Ever wonder just how to get a submerged golf-cart from the reptile-infested river? Or which club in your handbag is most effective for fight against a group of subjects? If these and other sporting concerns are gnawing at you, The Alpine Rest, Carl Hiaasen’s amusing confessional about returning to the fairways following a thirty-two-year absence, is the book for you.Originally attracted to the overall game by his father, Carl properly quit golf in 1973, when “Richard Nixon was hunkered-down such as a meth-crazy badger within the White House, Hank Aaron was one dinger afraid of Girl Ruth’s all-time home run record, and The Who'd just-released Quadrophenia.” However many goals won't die, and whilst the years—and recollections of shanked 7-irons—faded, it dawned on Carl that there may As a childhood than he could be something in life he could do better in middle-age. Therefore progressively he went back once again to the feared driving range, this time around whilst the father of the five-year-old son—and additionally like a grandfather.“What offers a guy to reunite in midlife into a sport at which he’d never excelled in his-prime, and which actually had worked him mainly disappointment, worry and exasperation?