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Dead solid perfect | 
 enlarge | Author: Dan Jenkins
Publisher: Atheneum
Category: Book
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Rating:  19 reviews
Sales Rank: 1652584
Edition: 1st
Pages: 234
ISBN: 0689106203
EAN: 9780689106200
ASIN: 0689106203
Publication Date: 1974
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Product Description
The legendary golf novel, rereleased in a special edition with a new foreword by the author.
Don Imus said it best: "Dan Jenkins is a comic genius." And nowhere is that genius more evident than in Dead Solid Perfect, his uproarious 1974 novel about life on the PGA Tour. To some, Kenny Lee Puckett, the star of Jenkins's ribald saga, is a more important figure in the history of golf than Bobby Jones himself.
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 One Solid Drive Down the Fairway November 14, 2008
Dan Jenkins tees it up and drives it straight down the fairway in this oftentimes very dark comedy concerning the professional golf tour.
The 1974 novel centers on Kenny Lee Puckett, who is a swinger in many ways, from the links to the 19th hole. Puckett plays the tour like a rock star, but is propelled into the spotlight of the national stage when he makes a remarkable run for a major title.
The majority of the characters are chasing life as much as they are pursuing a paycheck on tour, but their flaws is what makes this sports novel a tap-in for eagle on the last hole.
 Terrible October 1, 2008
This is the first and last Jenkins novel I will read. Although he certainly wasn't politically correct, that didn't offend me or cause me to dislike it. The lack of humor however was offensive!! Just wasn't funny. I have read many other serious and funny novels (Rick Reilly crushes this guy) about golf and this is the worst.
 Fish in a Barrel May 5, 2008
Attacking golf for its snobbery and elitism is like taking a shotgun to a barrel-load of fish. The target is too big, too obvious, too easy. Of course the accusation contains a retired, monocle-wearing kernel of truth. I have written myself of a preposterous episode at Aldeburgh Golf Club one Thursday lunchtime a few summers back, when some friends and I wandered into an otherwise empty clubhouse before playing 18 holes. We were all dressed casually but fairly smartly, yet were told by the secretary that to eat a sandwich in the bar we needed jackets and ties. He had some which he dished out, but the jackets were too short in the arms, the ties too wide, the shades all wrong. We could not have looked more like clowns had we taken to the course on monocycles. But nonsense like that is becoming the exception rather than the rule. Many golf clubs still operate a no jeans-no trainers rule, but that's fair enough; a gentle dress code encourages conformity in more important areas, like treating the course with respect, and alerting fellow-golfers that the ball you have just belted in completely the wrong direction might be about to hit them smack between the eyes.
 An Eagle, henceforth and forever... April 1, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Still, after more than 30 years, the best golf book ever written...
Funny, hilarious, irreverent...Willard Peacock's slice...nobody could (or can)cuss like ole Willard..after all this time, it's still funny.
Dan Jenkins at this best.
A word of warning..... June 23, 2006
3 out of 9 found this review helpful
Based on an article in the Wall Street Journal and the previous reviews, I bought this book, and Missing Links by Dan Jenkins, for my father-in-law, an avid golfer and reader. He was so disgusted by the language in both books (the c-word, f-word etc. "on every page") that he returned them.
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