Snap Slice

by Jim Sutherland

The smart, funny, sexy novel about golf and golfers—and art and architecture, and business and economics, and science and psychology, and men and women, and skirts and skorts.It’s May 2007, and Jeff Jones is crawling back from the depths. One year earlier, to his bewildered surprise, he had it a great job making up the preposterous back stories used to design and sell ski and golf resorts, membership at the esteemed Dunbar Gates and, best by far, the astonishing Sydney.But Jeff’s world came crashing down when he discovered Syd naked in the hot tub with the VP Marketing and ill-advisedly turned his colleague’s sport-ubiquity-vehicle into a fireball that lit up the night sky. Jobless and alone, he spends long days on Big Bill’s driving range, ultimately developing a radical new way to swing a golf club. The savvy Bill spots opportunity where others see only quivering jelly, and sets him up as an instructor.But then the June issue of Golf Digest arrives, with its sensational cover story on the Stack & Tilt swing, which seems identical to Jeff’s. Better—unless it’s worse—Jeff links up with the mysterious Jenny, just as Syd blasts back onto the scene. And who else should appear but the mother that Jeff has been trying to avoid, with news of the notorious father that he has never met. Will the reunion be manic I Love Lucy, or cringe-inducing Curb Your Enthusiasm? Or, in imagining a sit-com rather than the opening scene in a police procedural, is Jeff being uncharacteristically optimistic? Here’s proof at last that golf is a sport. A contact this book was originally published as Stack and Tilt, The Novel. Reviews cannot be transferred over, but are copied below. All were five-star reviews.Entertaining, insightful novel, July 31, 2013By Robert Kozak - See all my reviewsThis review is Stack And The Novel (Paperback)A great novel and a fun read. The plot carries you through to a surprise ending, and along the way entertains with any number of pithy insights in a wide range of subjects from Danish furniture to global finance and the intricacies of golf and gender issues. Mr. Sutherland has a keen understanding of how to explain the ins and outs of golf and to make it highly interesting to the non-professional. If there is any criticism of the book, it is that could have gone on longer. Great read, not just for golfers, June 20, 2013By J. Carpick (Vancouver, BC) - See all my reviews Densely textured page-turner. Is that a contradiction? Not in the case of this comic novel. Yes, golf features prominently, but so does sex, race, infidelity, Saabs, nudity in hot tubs, miscegenation, the global financial crisis, partnership law, sex in golf carts, obscene lawn art, pyrotechnically explosive rages, Oldsmobiles, questions of journalistic integrity including "blow jobs", architectural theory, child breeding experimentation, one night stands, Danish furniture, Nicaraguan politics, trees breaking, shaved pudenda.... well, you get the picture. The plot races forward so irresistibly you will read and re-read this book because there's so much good stuff you missed the first time. It's intelligent and clever but packed with incident, and laugh out loud funny in places (delighted smirks in others). I highly recommend it.Juicy, July 14, 2013By Sun Coaster - See all my reviewsA fun read, full of surprises, with spicy tidbits on every page. Non-golfers need not fear. They'll burn through Stack and Tilt as avidly as the low handicappers. By Milton Woodard - See all my reviewsAmazon Verified Purchase(What's this?)This review is Stack And The Novel (Paperback) Just a nice, light, funny rea

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First published May 1, 2013