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Join Anderson’s Bookshop for an author event with Gene Wojciechowski, to celebrate the release of All Carry, on Friday, April 10th at 7:00 pm in our Naperville store. Wojciechowski will be in conversation with Emmy-award-winning sports journalist Wayne Drehs.
Event Format
We will begin checking you in approximately 30 minutes before the start time. After a presentation and Q&A with the author, the line will form in numbered order with the following guidelines:
Posed photo with your camera taken by our staff
There is a limit of 2 books from home to be signed (unless otherwise stated)
There is a limit of 1 personalization (unless otherwise stated)
All events have open seating. The “Order Line Number” on your pdf ticket is your reserved place in the signing line. You will line up to meet the author based on that number.
If you cannot attend, you must pick up your book (if included with ticket) at the hosting store within 30 days of the event. We can ship that book to you for an additional charge of $9.99; please call the store to arrange that.
Pre-registration is required for this event because space is limited.
More about All Carry:
A recently laid-off golf reporter. A down-on-his-luck caddie. And a magical set of clubs once owned by Jack Nicklaus. In this funny, feel-good novel, New York Times bestselling author and former ESPN reporter Gene Wojciechowski gives us a pair of unlikely champions unlike any other.
Joe is a golf reporter. He’s missed more Father’s Days than he cares to count because that’s when he has to cover the US Open. But his son Buddy has counted every single one.
Joe and Buddy’s relationship is fractured at best. Then one day at a garage sale Buddy finds a woefully obsolete set of golf clubs that supposedly belonged to Jack Nicklaus and decides to give them to his father as an olive branch. When Joe takes the clubs out on a whim, he discovers something unbelievable: he’s hitting 400 yards. No one hits the ball that far, not Tiger, not Nicklaus.
Max “Hard Way” Mitchell knows golf perhaps better than anyone. He used to be one of the best caddies on the PGA Tour. But he was run out of town after sleeping with a golf pro’s wife. Now he’s the owner of a run-down driving range, his glory days slipping away.
When Joe is laid-off, and Hardway realizes that with this magical set of golf clubs he is better than anyone on the tour, he convinces Joe to do the seemingly impossible—win the Masters as an amateur. And to do this they'll need each other. Told with a specificity that only comes from years of covering the sport, Gene Wojciechowski’s fiction debut, All Carry, is a father/son/unlikely friendship/comeback story that will no doubt be a new classic.
About the Author:
About the Conversation Partner:
Wayne Drehs is a three-time Emmy Award winning sports journalist, who spent 23 years on the features and enterprise team at ESPN, where his stories appeared on ESPN.com, ESPN Magazine as well as ESPN TV’s SportsCenter, E:60 and Outside the Lines as well as Good Morning America, World News Tonight, MSNBC and The Oprah Winfrey Show.
He has reported from more than a dozen countries and 45 states in pursuit of stories that use sports as a vehicle to explore the complexities of life way from the field, be it racial and gender equality, mental health, drug addiction, sexual abuse, wrongful imprisonment or global politics. He has reported from The White House, the Kremlin, the Great Pyramids of Egypt and the beaches of Copacabana. Between enterprise assignments Wayne has covered five Olympic Games, four Super Bowls, the World Cup, NBA Finals, Stanley Cup Finals, MLB playoffs, Daytona 500 and Wimbledon. He is a former Knight-Wallace Fellow of Journalism at the University of Michigan and a Distinguished Alumni from the University of Iowa having earned his BA in 2000.
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