The Legend of Bagger Vance: A Novel of Golf and the Game of Life

___________________ ‘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.