Lucky Boy - Morfit, Cameron
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Max Buras, age thirteen, is the quintessential middle child. With thick glasses and no physique worth mentioning, he's not as social or swoonworthy as his older sister; with good grades and no behavioral problems, he doesn't command the parental attention of his younger brother Gabe, whose refusal to speak has been variously diagnosed by an array of doctors and counselors. Then Max's distant ne'er-do-well relative, Dewey Tomlinson, blows into town. Following the cryptic advice of a phone-in psychic, 'Uncle' Dewey gloms on to Max as his ticket to a better life--that is, to better success as a gambler.…mehr

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Max Buras, age thirteen, is the quintessential middle child. With thick glasses and no physique worth mentioning, he's not as social or swoonworthy as his older sister; with good grades and no behavioral problems, he doesn't command the parental attention of his younger brother Gabe, whose refusal to speak has been variously diagnosed by an array of doctors and counselors. Then Max's distant ne'er-do-well relative, Dewey Tomlinson, blows into town. Following the cryptic advice of a phone-in psychic, 'Uncle' Dewey gloms on to Max as his ticket to a better life--that is, to better success as a gambler.
Autorenporträt
Cameron Morfit is a Senior Writer for the Sports Illustrated Golf Group who has covered the PGA Tour since 1997. His feature stories, essays and columns have appeared in Sports Illustrated, Fortune, TV Guide, Golf Magazine, Golf Digest, the New York Times Magazine, the New York Times and other publications. He has been interviewed on NPR and CNN, and is a regular presence in the pages of SI and Golf Magazine, and on Golf.com, where his work also includes video essays. After beginning his college career at UC Berkeley, Morfit graduated from the University of Colorado-Boulder in 1992 with a degree in journalism and an emphasis on broadcast production. He began his journalism career at a small weekly newspaper in Paulding County, Georgia; transitioned to a daily newspaper in Idaho Falls, Idaho; moved to New York to immerse himself in magazines; and now lives in Boise, Idaho, with his wife and 12-year-old daughter.