Shoeless Joe - Hardcover

Kinsella, W. P.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 039532047X ISBN 13: 9780395320471

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1982

Synopsis

Motivated by his fanatical love of baseball, Ray Kinsella is inspired to build a baseball stadium in his corn field, dedicated to his hero, the legendary Shoeless Joe Jackson, in a novel that became the inspiration for the film Field of Dreams. Reprint.

About this title

Review:

"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."

About the Author:

W. P. Kinsella (1935-2016) was the author of numerous works of fiction, including the best-selling Shoeless Joe, for which he won the Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship, The Iowa Baseball Confederacy, and eleven highly acclaimed short story collections.

About this edition

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Publication date: 1982
• ISBN 10: 039532047X
• ISBN 13: 9780395320471
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1