"For generations, fathers and sons have trudged emerald fairways together in a lacerating enterprise called golf. Steve Friedman does a marvelous job writing about one such improbable outing, in which nine holes of spirited hacking bridged an aching gap between him and his dad. 'Driving Lessons' is a good read about a good walk, unspoiled."
- Carl Hiaasen, author of
"The Downhill Lie: A Hacker's Return to a Ruinous Sport" 

"Steve Friedman is one of the best American chroniclers of the intersections between 'shallow' sport and deep feeling, and in Driving Lessons he's at the top of his game. Here it's golf--a sport beloved by the author's father and despised and resisted by the son for nearly a half-century--that brings these two very different men, despite tangled ambivalence and resentment on both sides, to appreciate each other. A frank, poignant, blessedly unsentimental little book about the way sport can serve, for a father and son divided by a common history, as a shared language."
- Michael Griffith, author of "Spikes"

About the Author

"For generations, fathers and sons have trudged emerald fairways together in a lacerating enterprise called golf. Steve Friedman does a marvelous job writing about one such improbable outing, in which nine holes of spirited hacking bridged an aching gap between him and his dad. 'Driving Lessons' is a good read about a good walk, unspoiled."
- Carl Hiaasen, author of
"The Downhill Lie: A Hacker's Return to a Ruinous Sport" 

"Steve Friedman is one of the best American chroniclers of the intersections between 'shallow' sport and deep feeling, and in Driving Lessons he's at the top of his game. Here it's golf--a sport beloved by the author's father and despised and resisted by the son for nearly a half-century--that brings these two very different men, despite tangled ambivalence and resentment on both sides, to appreciate each other. A frank, poignant, blessedly unsentimental little book about the way sport can serve, for a father and son divided by a common history, as a shared language."
- Michael Griffith, author of "Spikes"