The Legend Of Bagger Vance

By (author) Pressfield Steven
Short description/annotation:
Set on a Georgia golf course in 1931, a caddie uses his mysterious powers to affect the game and the fate of the players. This is the film tie-in edition of "Bagger Vance", from the Director of "The Horse Whisperer" and starring Will Smith, Matt Damon, Jack Lemmon and Charlize Theron.
Description:

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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''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.

Review quote:
''Good stuff...a philosophical fantasy imagined on a golf course, heavy with fog, storm, fireworks and the howling winds of supernatural forces''
Review quote:
''Golf and mysticism...a dazzler and a thought-provoker''
Review quote:
''A marvellous, life-affirming book''
Review quote:
''Memorable...a page-turner...golf played a foot or so from Alice''s looking glass, with mystical realms poised to engulf the reader at every turn''
Biographical note:
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.