- Paperback: 352 pages
- Publisher: Black Swan (4 Aug 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0552770760
- ISBN-13: 978-0552770767
- Product Dimensions: 12.9 x 19.8 x 2.7 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
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- #36 in Books > Biography > Sport > Golf
- #43 in Books > Sports, Hobbies & Games > Golf > History & Biography
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Tom Cox's parents are worried. With good reason. At an age when most boys are doing their best to offend their elders with loud music and outrageous fashion, Tom is practising his golf swing. According to Nice Jumper Tom's universe is defined by the limits of the Cripsley Edge Golf Club, his ambitions dictated by the quest for golfing stardom. But his parents-who'd rather their son would attend protest marches than walk round in Pringle jumpers-needn't worry. Unbeknown to them, Tom is the East Midlands' enfant terrible of golf. A rebel genius, whose socks are never quite the right shade to satisfy the Captain, and whose triumphs on the fairway are matched by the wickedness of his deeds in the back room of the Golf Shop. Freak fires, dead rodents in shoes and random outbreaks of nudity are Tom's trademarks. But how long can Tom spread anarchy in this staid world before he is corrupted himself? Can he achieve the perfect shot, before his heart is claimed by more conventional pursuits, like girls and rock and roll?
This is a hugely funny, real-life tale of teenage obsession, made all the more unique for being about a subject few people can discuss without yawning. If you share even a tenth of Tom's passion for golf, you will want to preserve this book in a glass case. Unfortunately if you don't, you might come to the conclusion--rather like Tom himself--that there are better things you could be doing with your life. --Matthew Baylis --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
William Boyd
'Does for golf what 'Fever Pitch' did for football...Funny, clever and all-too-horribly true'
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Make no mistake, this book is not entirly about golf. If you struggle to know the difference between a sand wedge and a putter, do not be disuaded; there is far more to this book than than the dream of being Tiger Woods.
Set in the days before the American golfing progidy had burst onto scene, Tom cox and his group of sporting sidekicks dreamed of accumplishing what Mr Woods went on to acheive, with no role models of a similar age to aspire to being, the boys of Cripsley Edge juniour golf team tried despratly to become teenage marvels in a retired couples dominated game.
Set between 1988 and 1993, Nice Jumper deals with the essential teenage years, 13-18, where messing around with you're mates is more important than school, setting fire to the golf pro's shop is something done more out of boredom than malevolence and girls were justing starting to become interesting.
Nice Jumper is a rare book that conveys developing manhood while reveling in boyishness. Where games such as Ching! are an example of a strange ritualistic oneupmanship that all young people experience with their peers.
It is a joy to find in writing that most youths get up to mischeif, but the seed from which this grew was not destructive, but boyant and rather innocent. The lads in Nice Jumper could well be a young school rugby team or saturday morning football squad, the sport is irrelavant, as is the fact that it is based around sport at all.
This is a book about reveling in being young. It makes no excuses for it's cheekyness, and asks no forgiveness for it's honesty.
If you've ever found putting strange items in peoples bags (or lockers or shoes)belly-achingly funny, then I would recomend his book to you very highly.
Set in the days before the American golfing progidy had burst onto scene, Tom cox and his group of sporting sidekicks dreamed of accumplishing what Mr Woods went on to acheive, with no role models of a similar age to aspire to being, the boys of Cripsley Edge juniour golf team tried despratly to become teenage marvels in a retired couples dominated game.
Set between 1988 and 1993, Nice Jumper deals with the essential teenage years, 13-18, where messing around with you're mates is more important than school, setting fire to the golf pro's shop is something done more out of boredom than malevolence and girls were justing starting to become interesting.
Nice Jumper is a rare book that conveys developing manhood while reveling in boyishness. Where games such as Ching! are an example of a strange ritualistic oneupmanship that all young people experience with their peers.
It is a joy to find in writing that most youths get up to mischeif, but the seed from which this grew was not destructive, but boyant and rather innocent. The lads in Nice Jumper could well be a young school rugby team or saturday morning football squad, the sport is irrelavant, as is the fact that it is based around sport at all.
This is a book about reveling in being young. It makes no excuses for it's cheekyness, and asks no forgiveness for it's honesty.
If you've ever found putting strange items in peoples bags (or lockers or shoes)belly-achingly funny, then I would recomend his book to you very highly.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Not being particularly interested in golf didn't matter a bit for me as I found Nice Jumper said a lot of the things that I feel are true about being a teenager and not entirely fitting in with your mates. For me it was BMX bikes but I think anyone with memories of being obsessed about something and only later realising you may well have looked a bit of an idiot will find comfort in this book. It made me cringe in recognition and laugh out loud at the same time.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
All golfers will recognised these kids from their clubs.... You see them there all the time... Tom's style of writing is great and really makes you chuckle.... Read this first and then read 'Bring me the head of Sergio Garcia'. These two books are a must for any 30+ golfer... And a great read for non golfers.....
Most Recent Customer Reviews
A funny coming-of-age novel with golf as the backdrop
This book may be about a teenage golf enthusiast, but will appeal to a far greater audience than the subject matter suggests. Read more
Published on 5 Feb 2010 by Allan MacDonald
Nice Jumper? Great Read!
If you like golf, buy this. If you don't like golf, still buy this because it's not a manual on swing-planes, it's about life and the fun that you can have making up games like... Read more
Published on 5 Nov 2008 by Mr. M. R. Wassell
Quality
This is a quality book, whether you like golf or not. Well written, easy to read and repeatedly funny. The kind of book you will read again and again.
Published on 4 April 2008 by G. M. Herron
A time of gifts
Tom Cox made me uncomfortable. I read this a long way from home, in my thirty second year, and all I could do was think back to my teenage years as an aspiring Seve stuffing half... Read more
Published on 15 Feb 2005 by Carl Spackler
A MUST READ FOR GOLFERS AND NON-GOLFERS
An innovative and fresh book that vividly captures the essence of youth.
Although the background is golf, it will appeal to anyone who has been a teenager (everyone! Read more
Although the background is golf, it will appeal to anyone who has been a teenager (everyone! Read more
Published on 4 Jan 2004 by I ALLOTT
Hilarious, especially so in the correct attire!
This book is very funny, well written and a joy to read. I'm pretty sure I've seen these people around York, and, well eveywhere, dressed to the teeth in menacing tartan and angry... Read more
Published on 10 Oct 2003 by Mr Jack Mullen
I laughed at his Jumper
This book is a great teenage confessional, and some fervent golfers may not appreciate its less-than-worshipful tone; but Nice Jumper is a really funny tale of a smelly, gawky... Read more
Published on 9 Oct 2003
Dumbed down book, written by numbers
There is a testament to this book on the cover saying that it is the 'Fever Pitch' of golf.
Well, quite simply, nothing could be further from the truth. Read more
Published on 2 Oct 2003 by "ianburdin"
Double Bogey
A book about growing up in the eighties and playing Golf? Sounds interesting I thought. Unfortunatly, I found this book just doesn't deliver. Read more
Published on 3 Sep 2003 by Rosslock
A great read
In the same way that Fever Pitch is about more than just football, Nice Jumper isn’t just a story about golf. Read more
Published on 4 Dec 2002
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