The Yips (edit title/settings)

Alan edited the first sentence of The Yips 3 weeks ago.

• Stuart Ransom,professional golfer, is drunkenly reeling off an interminable series of stats about the women's game in Korea (or the Ladies Game, as he is determined to have it): 'Don't scowl at me, beautiful ...!' - directed, with his trademark Yorkshire twinkle, at Jen, who lounges, sullenly, behind the hotel bar.

Shelfari edited the description of The Yips Thursday, December 13, 2012.

• The Man Booker Prize–nominated novel by one of the most original authors of our time   Storm clouds are gathering above the bar of the less-than-exclusive Thistle Hotel. Stuart Ransom, a jet-setting, supermodel-chasing pro golfer with an extravagant ego and a career nearing the end of a spectacular decline, is drinking his way through the night. Desperate for attention, he strikes up free-flowing conversations with anyone who will listen. But as he banters with Jen, the impish barmaid with a talent for telling tall tales rivaled only by Stuart’s own, the night takes an extraordinary turn.   Among those caught up in the unfolding drama are a tattooist with a mad mother and a love of anything from the 1940s; a free-thinking Muslim sex therapist and his considerably more conservative wife; the mysterious Vicki, the sister of Stuart’s defiant yet curiously devoted manager; and a misguided female vicar of the Church of England and her husband, Gene, the Thistle’s hapless bartender.   They are a highly entertaining and eccentric bunch, but there’s more to them than meets the eye. “There enter in questions of what it is to be consumed by love or lust, by shame, by the longing to be someone else or nobody” ( The Guardian ), and The Yips unites them in an absorbing, exhilarating tour de force.

Shelfari submitted a request to combine 2 books, including The Yips, Thursday, December 13, 2012.

Shelfari approved its own request to combine 2 books, including The Yips, Thursday, December 13, 2012.

Shelfari approved its own request to combine 2 books, including The Yips, Monday, December 10, 2012.

Shelfari submitted a request to combine 2 books, including The Yips, Monday, December 10, 2012.

Shelfari edited the characters of The Yips Friday, September 14, 2012.

• Added a character: Chris Padgett
• Added a character: Hamra
• Added a character: Michelle Wie
• Added a character: Bruce Lee
• Added a character: Louise Bourgeois
• Added a character: Esther Wilson
• Added a character: Tiger Woods
• Added a character: Arnold Palmer
• Added a character: Bobby
• Added a character: Pammy Sullivan
• Added a character: Duke
• Added a character: Cheiro
• Added a character: Mr Ricker
• Added a character: Valentine Wickers
• Added a character: Sheila Phillips
• Added a character: Tandy
• Added a character: Suzanne Amour
• Added a character: Karma Dean
• Added a character: Neil Young
• Added a character: Stanislav
• Added a character: Toby Whittaker
• Added a character: Dorothy
• Added a character: Reggie Tucker
• Added a character: Noel Tucker
• Added a character: Nessa
• Added a character: Badriya
• Added a character: Prince Louis
• Added a character: Megumi
• Added a character: Kenny
• Added a character: Anne Sexton
• Added a character: Wendy Beckett
• Added a character: Vicki Wilson
• Added a character: Wolf
• Added a character: Jimmie Mack
• Added a character: Charles Del Renzio
• Added a character: Gene
• Added a character: Lulu
• Added a character: Aamilah
• Added a character: Sasha
• Added a character: Terence Nimrod
• Added a character: Ann Tucker
• Added a character: Faldo
• Added a character: Francis Johnson
• Added a character: Farhana
• Added a character: Kali
• Added a character: Stan
• Added a character: Salvatore
• Added a character: Mischa
• Added a character: Frida Kahlo
• Added a character: Don Hansard
• Added a character: Marek
• Added a character: Tom Watson
• Added a character: Riya
• Added a character: Marisol
• Added a character: Hana
• Added a character: Sinclair
• Added a character: John Daly
• Added a character: Clausewitz
• Added a character: Karim
• Added a character: Dad
• Added a character: Virgin Mary
• Added a character: Mallory
• Added a character: Stuart Ransom
• Added a character: Jen
• Added a character: Yip Man

Cora R approved maven’s request to change the contributors of The Yips Saturday, August 4, 2012.

• Added a contributor: Nicola Barker: (Primary Author)

Cora R approved maven’s request to change the title of The Yips Saturday, July 28, 2012.