num_pages: 266
description: ___________________ '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.
language: English
title: The Legend of Bagger Vance: A Novel of Golf and the Game of Life
titlecomplete: The Legend of Bagger Vance: A Novel of Golf and the Game of Life
genres: Historical, Fantasy, Philosophy, Spirituality, Novels, Media Tie In, Historical Fiction, Sports, Literature, Fiction
ratings_count: 4430
places: Savannah, Georgia
publisher: Bantam Books (Transworld Publishers a division of the Random House Group)