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"A ""winning"" (Parade) and ""well-conceived"" (The New York Times) account of one teenager's solo trek to play golf in each of the lower forty-eight states--""two parts coming-of-age story, one part golf travel adventure, and one part survival test"" (Golfweek). Shortly before his freshman year of college was set to begin, seventeen-year-old Dylan Dethier--hungry for an adventure beyond his small town--deferred his admission and, ""like Jack Kerouac and Ken Kesey before him, packed his used car and meager life savings and set off to see and write about America"" (ABC News/ Yahoo). His goal: play a round of golf in each of the lower forty-eight states. From a gritty municipal course in Flint, Michigan, to rubbing elbows with Phil Mickelson at Quail Hollow, Dylan would spend a remarkable year exploring the astonishing variety of the nation's golf courses--and its people. Over one year, thirty-five thousand miles, and countless nights alone in his dusty Subaru, Dylan showered at truck stops, slept with an ax under his seat, and lost his virginity, traveling ""wherever the road took him, with golf as a vehicle for understanding America"" (The New York Times). The result is a book that ""would be considered fine work by any writer, let alone one so young"" (Maine Edge)."

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A terrific read. --Tim Layden, senior editor, Sports Illustrated

Two parts coming-of-age story, one part golf travel adventure and one part survival test. The result, <i>18 in America</i>, is the work of a young man who not only is unusually insightful and self-aware, but has the writerly gifts and clear voice to tell his story. In a year that is shaping up to be an unusually good one for golf literature, it's unlikely that the genre is going to produce anything as compelling as Dethier's tale. --Martin Kaufmann Golfweek magazine

I couldn't put it down The writing is vivid. You can see the people, imagine the places and understand a young man's moments of loneliness and fear then on the next page laugh at his sense of humor. You'd think this was his 20th book, not his initial effort. I seldom read a book in two days, but I devoured Dethier's superb 256-page effort. --Richard Lord Berkshire Eagle

'I couldn't put it down... The writing is vivid. You can see the people, imagine the places and understand a young man's moments of loneliness and fear then on the next page laugh at his sense of humor. You'd think this was his 20th book, not his initial effort. I seldom read a book in two days, but I devoured Dethier's superb 256-page effort. --Richard Lord Berkshire Eagle

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Dylan Dethier is a native of small-town western Massachusetts. He learned to golf on a shoes-optional par-30 course near his grandparents' house on the Maine coast. Dethier is now an English major at Williams College.

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