First, You Gotta Waggle. Novel Searches for Social Conscience on Suburban Golf Course

Ushering in the 2007 golf season and now available online at amazon.com, Waggle, the first novel from Joe Redden Tigan, is not only four men’s (reluctant) search for self-fulfillment, it’s also at parts a slightly demented guidebook on how certain golf bets are constructed and what is involved in the mechanics of many kinds of golf shots.

“It’s always been my experience that a round of golf invariably has a way of clearing my head,” Tigan says. “I wanted to write a book that magnified golf’s ability to do that, and to a sort of ridiculously fictitious level. But still somehow credible. I suppose Waggle tries to follow the advice given in its own title—find a Zen-like comfort level, then swing away.”

About Waggle
It’s July 28, 2003 in Carlsburg, IL, where almost everyone is employed in the real estate industry, indicating the need to accommodate the bone-jarring residential and commercial real estate development that has started to surround Chicago. Triple-the-Pines Golf Course, Tigan’s oddly enchanted fictional Chicagoland course, is an escape from it. And possibly a zigzagging path towards enlightenment.

Many of the golfers at Triple-the-Pines are in the 40-years-old range, and many are experiencing the sort of muffled catharsis often associated with that age. One in particular, Conny Bromenn, is questioning his own long-standing lethargic attitude toward community involvement, and the lethargy of those around him.

While Waggle certainly alludes to the inevitable ennui of a listless suburban life, that’s not the main purpose of the book—to let things wallow in Pleasant-Valley-Sunday demographic oblivion. Waggle comes to the suburbs already understanding the inherent trappings of white-collar complacency, having a history of it, but in search of a solution. As many solutions as possible, in fact. The real question here is not whether an unexamined (suburban) life is vacuous or not, but, if given several ways to lead a more meaningful life, would people take any at all.

About the Author
Joe Redden Tigan has had poetry published in The High Plains Literary Review and other literary journals. He once caddied in the Western Open, one of golf’s oldest and most prestigious tournaments. He carried the bag for Jack Renner. Tigan was born in DeKalb, IL and currently lives in Chicagoland.

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ISBN: 978-0-595-41619-6. Publication date: 3/9/07. Price: $14.95 (US). Publisher: iUniverse. Order at: www.amazon.com/Waggle-Joe-Redden-Tigan/dp/0595416195/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/104-8143655-0367124?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1177541575&sr=8-1 Media Contact: Lori Peterson loriann1100@msn.com

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