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| Original Title: | Shoeless Joe |
| ISBN: | 078572902X (ISBN13: 9780785729020) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | Iowa(United States) |
| Literary Awards: | Canadian Authors Association Award for Fiction (1983) |
W.P. Kinsella
Hardcover | Pages: 272 pages Rating: 3.97 | 12820 Users | 875 Reviews
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“If you build it, he will come.”These mysterious words inspire Ray Kinsella to create a cornfield baseball diamond in honor of his hero, Shoeless Joe Jackson. What follows is 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.
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| Title | : | Shoeless Joe |
| Author | : | W.P. Kinsella |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 272 pages |
| Published | : | April 28th 1999 by Turtleback Books (first published 1982) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Sports. Baseball. Fantasy. Magical Realism |
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Ratings: 3.97 From 12820 Users | 875 ReviewsEvaluation About Books Shoeless Joe
Who would have thought...the CUBS and the INDIANS in the World Series! Today is game 3 of the series with it tied one game apiece. The Cubs haven't won a World Series since 1908 and the Indians haven't won since 1948. This great matchup made me want to read a baseball novel and what better than SHOELESS JOE, the basis of the movie "Field of Dreams" starring Kevin Costner. I saw Dreams when it first came out in 1989 but I didn't really remember much about it other than the Costner characterWow! I saw the movie years ago and I just picked this book up to have something to read at the beach. I was blown away. Kinsella has a beautiful way with language. As the cover says, this is not just a book about baseball. It is a book about love and memories, about the truth of our lives, and, in the end, like so many other great works, it is about fathers and sons and the heart rending distance between them that is filled with longing and love and the inability to express it. It left me in
Writer W.P. Kinsella did things his way. In failing health, he chose to end his life early Friday afternoon.W.P. (Bill) Kinsella invoked the assisted dying provisions of Bill C-14, at Hope, B.C., and passed away at 12:05 p.m. Friday, Sept. 16, 2016, said a statement from his agent, Carolyn Swayze.
Just finished this and needed to re-watch the movie Field of Dreams that it inspired. While the novel has some characters, themes, and events that some might feel are missing from the film, on the whole, the film is faithful to the spirit of the book and in some ways even improves upon it. This book is about the love of baseball, known for decades as the American Pastime. The book is also about the love of the land and this is one of the themes that gets trimmed. But the love of baseball is
W. P. Kinsella passed away this weekend. Fittingly, we have selected his novel Shoeless Joe, the basis of the movie Field of Dreams, as our fiction selection for the baseball book club for October 2016. Featuring the characters who star in the film as well as additional personae and locations, it was a joy for me to reread this novel filled with examples of magical realism on and off of the baseball diamond. Although Kinsella hails from western Canada, at the time of this novel's publication he
Now indeed, I honestly absolutely and utterly do adore the movie based on W.P. Kinsella's Shoeless Joe novel, I completely love love love Field of Dreams (starring Kevin Costner as the main baseball diamond building protagonist and Ray Liotta as Shoeless Joe Jackson), that delightful sense of magical realism and of healing painfully gaping and generational family wounds, dysfunction and misunderstandings through the power and sustaining, nurturing mythology of baseball (and this even though I am
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