Spikes: A Novel

Description

At twenty-six, Brian Schwan is washed up. Four years hacking away on third-rate golf courses across the South have produced a grand total of $19,000 in earnings, zero wins, and a string of spectacular tournament flame-outs. He's just shot a horrendous opening round, his wife wants him to come home and start a family, and even his father, who dreamed of seeing his son a star golfer, seems to have given up on his game. Critically acclaimed, Spikes is a sharply observed novel about the obscurity of our motivations, our capacity for self-delusion, and the surprising, unexpected possibilities for grace.

Michael Griffith is a novelist and short-story writer. His stories and essays have appeared in literary journals such as the Oxford American, the Southwest Review, Salmagundi, and the Virginia Quarterly Review, among others. He lives in Cincinnati, Ohio.