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Shoeless Joe by W.P. Kinsella6/25/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() 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. Kinsella, is a book where the main character, Ray, strives forward and advances to reach moral happiness and success. Kinsella (Author) Format: Kindle Edition 1,740 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 8.83 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial The novel that inspired Field of Dreams: A lyrical, seductive, and altogether winning concoction. ![]() In Kinsella's hands, it's all about as simple, and complex, as the object of baseball itself: coming home. Modeled after Field of Dreams, Shoeless Joe, by 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. 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.", W. In Kinsella's hands, it's all about as simple, and complex, as the object of baseball itself: coming home. ![]() ![]()
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