The Haunted Major

by Robert Marshall

Book Overview

Introduced by John Updike and published in America for the first time, The Haunted Major recounts a golf match of epic proportions between adversaries. In this uproarious tale about human conceit and the supernatural, Major the Honorable John William Wentworth Gore, an English gentleman of sublime self-esteem, challenges crack golfer Jim Lindsay to a game for the chance to propose marriage to Mrs. Gunter, a beautiful American millionairess. Although...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0880016698
• ISBN13: 9780880016698
• Release Date: July 1999
• Publisher: Ecco Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.3" x 8.1"

Customer Reviews

The ultimate stereotypes unmasked

Here is a brilliant bit of parody and humor centered around a golf match. For us Americans who don't fully understand the British class system and arrogance, here is the book to fully explain it (not to mention unmasking a bit of male chauvanism)