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The Mysterious Montague: A True Tale of Hollywood, Golf, and Armed Robbery (Thorndike...
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The Mysterious Montague: A True Tale of Hollywood, Golf, and Armed Robbery (Thorndike...
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by Leigh Montville
Sales Rank: 3135488
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Hardcover: 358 pages
Publisher: Thorndike Press; Lrg edition October 3, 2008
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1410410129
ISBN-13: 978-1410410122
Product Dimensions:
8.5 x 5.5 x 1.2 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
From Publishers Weekly
When John Montague died alone on May 25, 1972, age 69, in a fleabag hotel in Studio City, Calif., his body went unclaimed for a week. Hardly a fitting end for a man who once rubbed shoulders with Bing Crosby, Richard Arlen, Oliver Hardy and the other Hollywood swells who golfed, drank and caroused at the Lakeside Country Club in L.A. In the capable hands of bestselling sportswriter Montville (Ted Williams), Montague's is a quintessentially American story of a man from a hardscrabble background who found himself in the glamorous, easy-money world of Hollywood. But Montague had a past that caught up to him. Having fled a charge of armed robbery in upstate New York, Montague was brought back in 1937 to stand trial, and though he got off, his life quickly unraveled. Hyped by the great sportswriter Grantland Rice (who called him a golfer who would be a wrecking whirlwind in any amateur championship and on a par with any pro) and other newshounds, Montague struggled through a series of increasingly embarrassing attempts to go legit on the golf circuit. An entertaining read for the golf lit completist, this doesn't rise to the level of compulsion for the average reader. (May)
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Product Review
“Critics who think bestselling sports biographer Montville’s popularity rests on that of his gargantuan subjects, from Ted Williams to Dale Earnhardt, had better think again: He hits the pin in one with this page-turning account of a long-forgotten golfer….Explaining why reporters loved to write about Montague, the author declares, ‘Intrigue is a better seller than great golf any day.’ Here, he gives readers both.”
—Kirkus, starred review
PREVIOUS PRAISE FOR NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR LEIGH MONTVILLE
TED WILLIAMS
“Exceptional. Montville on Ted Williams is can’t-miss, one of America’s best sportswriters weighing in on one of the last century’s most intriguing figures. A great read.”
—Chicago Tribune
“In Ted Williams, Leigh Montville reaches a threshold even the mighty Williams could never touch: perfection. The beauty of Montville’s work is that it is not a baseball book, per se, so much as the life and times of an oft perplexing, always fascinating man.”
—Newsday
“Montville is refreshingly nonjudgmental about his superstar subject. First-rate biography.”
—Los Angeles Times Book Review
“Crisp analogies and astute observations, combined with a fluid writing style, are Leigh Montville’s strengths in this definitive biography of the Splendid Splinter.”
—Tampa Tribune
THE BIG BAM
“[A] vivid, intimate account. Montville’s unique voice … makes old yarns seem new.”
—Sports Illustrated
“Montville is a wonderful storyteller and Ruth’s story, from Baltimore street urchin to international celebrity is indisputably amazing … a fascinating tale, alternately happy and sad, and always artfully written.”
—Chicago Tribune
“The best Ruth biography to date … [Montville’s] adroit organization of the historical material—enhanced by newly studied archival material and oral history transcripts, together with his flair for marshalling undisputed facts that are intertwined with plausible speculations—has produced an engaging, entertaining, and eminently readable biography.”
—Library Journal, starred review
--This text refers to the
Hardcover
edition.
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