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4.4/5 Barnes & Noble Language English Originally published 1995 Page count 288 | 3.8/5 Goodreads Country United States Pages 288 Genre Fiction | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Adaptations The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000) Similar Steven Pressfield books, Other books | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Legend of Bagger Vance: A Novel of Golf and the Game of Life is an American novel by Steven Pressfield that was adapted into the film The Legend of Bagger Vance.
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Plot
During the Great Depression of 1931, two legends of golf, Bobby Jones and Walter Hagen, compete in a thirty-six-hole showdown. Another golfer also competes, a troubled local war hero named R. Junuh with a mentor and caddie, the mysterious Bagger Vance.
Similarities to the Hindu epic Mahabharata
The plot is loosely based on the Hindu sacred text the Bhagavad Gita, where the Warrior/Hero Arjuna (R. Junuh) refuses to fight. The god Krishna appears as Bhagavan (Bagger Vance) to help him to follow his path as the warrior and hero that he was meant to be. This relationship was fully explained by Steven J. Rosen in his book Gita on the Green, for which Steven Pressfield wrote the foreword.