The Legend Of Bagger Vance

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___________________’A marvellous, life-affirming book’ Mark McCormack’Golf and mysticism…a dazzler and a thought-provoker’ Los Angeles Times’Good stuff…a philosophical fantasy imagined on a golf course, heavy with fog, storm, fireworks and the howling winds of supernatural forces’ New York Times Book Review___________________In the Depression year of 1931, on the golf links at Krewe Island off Savannah’s windswept shore, two legends of the game – Bobby Jones and Walter Hagen – meet for a mesmerizing thirty-six hole showdown.They are joined by another player, a troubled war hero called Rannulph Junah. But the key to the outcome lies not with these golfing titans but with Junah’s caddie and mentor, the mysterious, sage and charismatic Bagger Vance – for he is the custodian of the secret of the Authentic Swing…____________________Written in the spirit of Bernard Malamud’s The Natural and sharing the magic of the celebrated Kevin Costner film Field of Dreams, Steven Pressfield’s first novel reveals the true nature of the game. Page-turning, spellbinding and affecting, it is a novel for golfers and non-golfers alike – a story in which the search for the Authentic Swing becomes a metaphor for the search for the Authentic Self.

Additional information

Weight 0.203 kg
Dimensions 1.7 × 12.9 × 19.8 cm
by

Format

Paperback

Language

Pages

288

Publisher

Year Published

2001-1-1

Imprint

Publication City/Country

London, United Kingdom

ISBN 10

0553813072

About The Author

Steven Pressfield is the author of the novels The Legend of Bagger Vance, Gates of Fire, Tides of War and Last of the Amazons. He lives in Los Angeles.

'Good stuff…a philosophical fantasy imagined on a golf course, heavy with fog, storm, fireworks and the howling winds of supernatural forces'

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'Golf and mysticism…a dazzler and a thought-provoker'

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