Shoeless Joe / W.P. Kinsella.
Material type:
TextPublication details: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1999, ©1982.Edition: 1st Mariner Book edDescription: 265 pages ; 22 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0395957737 (pbk.)
- 9780395957738 (pbk.)
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book
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Main Library | Fiction | Kinsella W. P. | Available | 33111007475532 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
The inspiration for the beloved film Field of Dreams, Shoeless Joe by W. P. Kinsella is the story about the beauty and history of baseball, and the power and endurance of a dream.
"A moonlit novel about baseball, dreams, family, the land, and literature."--Sports Illustrated
"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.
"A Mariner Book."
"Winner of a Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship Award."
Shoeless Joe Jackson comes to Iowa -- They tore down the polo grounds in 1964 -- The life and times of Moonlight Graham -- The oldest living Chicago Cub -- The rapture of J.D. Salinger.
A dreamer builds a baseball diamond amid the Iowa cornfields and waits for the outstanding, but dead, baseball players of the past to show up for a very special game.