The amateur
(2026)

Fiction

Large Type

Call Numbers:
NEW LARGE TYPE/FICTION/BOHJALIAN,C
SR CENTER/LARGE TYPE/FICTION/BOHJALIAN,C

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Large Type NEW LARGE TYPE/FICTION/BOHJALIAN,C Due: 11/16/2026
Large Type NEW LARGE TYPE/FICTION/BOHJALIAN,C Due: 11/18/2026
Senior Center Large Type SR CENTER/LARGE TYPE/FICTION/BOHJALIAN,C Available (not Holdable)

Details

PUBLISHED
New York, NY : Random House Large Print, [2026]
©2026
EDITION
First large print edition
DESCRIPTION

412 pages (large print) ; 24 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9798217347049, 9798217347049
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

"1978: It is the first Thursday in August and temperatures are flirting with ninety when Mira Winston, eighteen years old, drives a golf ball from her tee toward the practice net near the clubhouse and caddy shack. The golf ball, weighing 1.6 ounces, tears through the net, traveling 150 miles per hour, and slams, with sickening force, into the temple of a high school junior named Kenny Foster, rupturing an artery and unleashing a torrent of blood. Kenny brings his hand to the side of his head, then topples onto his side. He's dead before the ambulance even arrives. In the wake of this terrible accident-and everyone, at first, agrees it was an accident-Mira looks for comfort in all the wrong places: In her lover, Theo Catton, a married man three decades her senior. In her mother, a well-kept woman with secrets of her own. In the dead caddy's little sisters, girls bewildered by grief. But when the investigators look more closely at the torn net, when a detective recalls Mira's history of recklessness, and when Kenny's father spies Mira with her married lover, the affluent and mannered community turns on this once-promising young woman"--Page 4 of cover

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