Lost in the Garden

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Lost in the Garden
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First edition
Author Philip Beard
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
GenreNovel
Publisher Viking Press
Publication date
2006
Media typePrint (hardback)
Pages208 pp
ISBN 0-670-03759-1
OCLC 62533976
813/.6 22
LC Class PS3602.E2525 L67 2006

Lost in the Garden is a midlife-crisis novel by the American writer Philip Beard. [1]

Set in contemporary Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, it tells the story of 45-year-old Michael Benedict, who after the failure of his marriage, moves back with his parents and sets himself a goal of breaking 70 in his golf game and making the Champions Tour by age 50. [2]

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  2. "Lost in the Garden (2006), Publishers Weekly, 2006".{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)