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Caddie
Days - a novel
Five shades
of green and eighty years of whitewash stand along the road halfway up
the mountain. This pre-colonial town sprouted the leisure of an upper
class, the robber barons, the roaring 20s, a Great Depression and a superpower
nation. My novel, CADDIE DAYS (about 70,000 words), is set in this historic
playground of American royalty.
The story alternates between the tail-end of the golden age of American
sport and industrialism and the long, hot summer of 1990. Told through
the eyes of fifteen-year-old caddie Bobby Reid, the earlier story follows
Craig Whitehead, the young golf professional, wasting his talents searching
for a place he belongs while falling hard for the wrong girl. CW battles
the better angels of his nature to the biggest match of his life and his
own murder.
Sixty years later, the Bobby is now the 75-year-old caddie master and the storyteller, Jamie Blair, is a longtime fixture in the old man’s caddie corps. Directionless after graduation, the young man learns how the end of a relationship feels just as the next mistake pulls into the parking lot driving her fiancé’s BMW. He’s a misfit striving to plot his way through the mysteries hidden within a slow suburban summer.
The stakes are high with money, ego, reputation and love on the line in two hazy summer evenings more than half a century apart.
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