A book about one teenager's search for sporting nirvana in the wrong-coloured socks."Nice Jumper is Catcher In The Rye meets Caddyshack." - Julie Burchill.
"Does for golf what Fever Pitch did for football... Funny, clever and all-too horribly true." - William Boyd."He will probably do more here to interest the non-putting fraternity in the sport than Tiger Woods and PG Wodehouse put together." - The Guardian."The Fever Putt of golf." - The Independent."Extremely funny - often laugh-out-loud funny, occasionally a threat to the intercostal muscles." - The Times."Hilarious... Lashings of insight, sarcasm and slapstick. Fore!" - James Brown, Jack magazine.During the summer of 1988, something strange and disorientating happened to Tom Cox: he became a teenager. Then, something even stranger and more disorientating happened: despite the best endeavours of his (relatively) groovy, underappreciated parents, regular exposure to credible music from an early age, and a burgeoning fashion sense, Tom started to play golf. Lots of it.Finding himself inexorably drawn to a world of male-bonding rituals and curious trousers, Tom resisted the temptations of conventional rock and roll revolution, opting instead to cut a swathe through the golfing establishment, unnerving his fellow players with his grungey music taste and games of Hide The Dead Rodent. The golf course was simultaneously where he felt most at home and most alienated. But Tom also wanted to be the best, taking five years out of normal adolescent existence to live, breathe, walk and talk nothing but the sport he loved.click here to buy 'Nice Jumper'!
