ISBN The Legend Of Bagger Vance book General novel English Paperback 288 pages

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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
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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...
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Written in the spirit of Bernard Malamud'sThe Naturaland sharing the magic of the celebrated Kevin Costner filmField 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.