Shoeless Joe

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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.


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Baseball conjures long, slow, hot, hazy afternoons or silken summer evenings. John Heard's narration dispels the magic and squanders Kinsella's pensive, evocative prose. D.M.L. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine


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"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."


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Baseball conjures long, slow, hot, hazy afternoons or silken summer evenings. John Heard￯﾿ﾽs narration dispels the magic and squanders Kinsella￯﾿ﾽs pensive, evocative prose. D.M.L. ￯﾿ﾽAudioFile, Portland, Maine


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