Golf in the Kingdom

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Publication Year:
2011

ISBN-13: 9781453218815

<DIV><B>A spiritual journey, a lush travelogue, a parable of sports and philosophy&mdash;</B><B>John Updike called this unique novel &ldquo;a golf classic if any exists in our day.&rdquo;</B><BR /><BR /> When an American traveler on his way to India stops to play a round on one of the most beautiful and legendary golf courses in Scotland, he doesn&rsquo;t know that his game&mdash;and his life&mdash;are about to change forever. He is introduced to Shivas Irons, a mysterious golf pro whose sublime insights stick with him long after the eighteenth hole. From the first swing of the Scotsman&rsquo;s club, he realizes he is in for a most extraordinary day.<BR /> &#160;<BR /> By turns comic, existential, and semiautobiographical, Michael Murphy&rsquo;s tale traces the arc of twenty-four hours, from a round of golf on the Links of Burningbush to a night fueled by whiskey, wisdom, and wandering&mdash;even a sighting of Seamus MacDuff, the holy man who haunts the hole they call Lucifer&rsquo;s Rug.<BR /> &#160;<BR /> &ldquo;Murphy&rsquo;s book is going to alter many visions,&rdquo; <I>The New York Times Book Review </I>declared. More than an unforgettable approach to one of the world&rsquo;s most popular sports, <I>Golf in the Kingdom </I>is a meditation on the power of a game to transform the self.<BR /> &#160;</DIV>