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  • Published: 1 October 1997
  • ISBN: 9780140195491
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 240
  • RRP: $40.00

Golf in the Kingdom



"...for golf’s soul surfers, Golf in the Kingdom is holy scripture." -- Golf

A spiritual journey, a lush travelogue, a parable of sports and philosophy—John Updike called this unique novel “a golf classic if any exists in our day.”

Now for the 50th anniversary, a beautiful new design and an introduction from Michael Murphy himself

Paired with a mysterious teacher named Shivas Irons, Michael Murphy is led through a round of phenomenal golf, swept into a world where extraordinary powers are unleashed in a backswing governed by “true gravity.” A night of adventure and revelation follows, and leads to a glimpse of Seamus MacDuff, the holy man who haunts a ravine off Burningbush’s thirteenth fairway—the one they call Lucifer’s Rug.
 
“A masterpiece on the mysticism of golf.” —San Francisco Chronicle
 
“A fascination . . . Golf in the Kingdom should have a long and prosperous life.” —Joseph Campbell

  • Published: 1 October 1997
  • ISBN: 9780140195491
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 240
  • RRP: $40.00

About the author

Michael Murphy

Michael Murphy co-founded the Esalen Institute, in Big Sur, California. In 1980 he helped create the Esalen Institute's Soviet-American Exchange programme which promoted and foreshadowed greater communication between Soviet and American writers, social activists and political leaders. Murphy is the author of such books as Golf in the Kingdom, The Future of the Body and The Life We Are Given (with George Leonard). He lives in Sausalito, California.

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