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Shoeless Joe
W.P. Kinsella

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Shoeless Joe

Ballantine Books (Mar 12, 1987)
9780345342560
| Mass Market Paperback
224 pages | 104 x 170 mm | English
Dewey 813.54
LC Classification CPBBoxno.1386 .vol. 11
LC Control No. 2011659119

Genre

  • Sports Stories

Subject

  • Baseball
  • Baseball Players
  • Baseball Stories
  • Farmers
  • Fiction

Plot

"Wild...Romantic...Unconventional...A triumph of hope."THE BOSTON GLOBEThe voice of a baseball announcer tells the Iowa farmer Ray Kinsella: "If you build it, he will come." "He" is Shoeless Joe Jackson, Ray's hero. "It" is a baseball stadium which Ray carves out of his cornfield. Like the movie FIELD OF DREAMS that was made from this novel, SHOELESS JOE is about baseball. But it's also about love and the power of dreams to make people come alive....