Shoeless Joe - by W P Kinsella (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Inspiration for the movie "Field of Dreams, Shoeless Joe" is the ultimate baseball novel.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>The inspiration for the beloved film <i>Field of Dreams</i>, <i>Shoeless Joe</i> is a mythical novel about "dreams, magic, life, and what is quintessentially American" (<i>Philadelphia Inquirer</i>). <p/> "If you build it, he will come." These mysterious words, spoken by an Iowa baseball announcer, inspire Ray Kinsella to carve a baseball diamond in his cornfield in honor of his hero, the baseball legend Shoeless Joe Jackson. What follows is both a rich, nostalgic look at one of our most cherished national pastimes and a remarkable story about fathers and sons, love and family, and the inimitable joy of finding your way home.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>W. P. Kinsella plays with both myth and fantasy in his lyrical novel, which was adapted into the enormously popular movie, 'Field of Dreams.' It begins with the magic of a godlike voice in a cornfield, and ends with the magic of a son playing catch with the ghost of his father. In Kinsella's hands, it's all about as simple, and complex, as the object of baseball itself: coming home. Like Ring Lardner and Bernard Malamud before him, Kinsella spins baseball as backdrop and metaphor, and, like his predecessors, uses the game to tell us a little something more about who we are and what we need. Amazon.com<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>W. P. Kinsella (1935-2016) was the author of numerous works of fiction, including the best-selling <i>Shoeless Joe</i>, for which he won the Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship, The Iowa Baseball Confederacy, and eleven highly acclaimed short story collections.
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