The Riverdale Chronicles

The Riverdale Chronicles is a collection of humorous short stories chronicling the misadventures of the members and staff of a fictional suburban country club. Although written as stand-alone pieces, the stories are related by both characters and themes. Many of the pieces are presented from the point of view of the club's professional, and a number of the characters appear in more than one story. Further, although the collection is organized according to standard golf-related "topics"-for example, "The Equipment" and "The Rules"-each story involves a theme or themes, such as friendship, charity, aging and dealing with change, traditional to sports literature, using the characters and setting as proxies for discussing more universal human issues.