Kinsella has been called a great writer of baseball novels, but this is misleading. Kinsella which also inspired Kevin Costner´s exceedingly popular film, Field of Dreams. Thus begins Shoeless Joe, the award-winning novel by W.P. Digging up his corn to build a ballpark will inspire the return of baseball legend Shoeless Joe Jackson, a man whose reputation was forever tarnished by the scandalous 1919 World Series. The voice will speak only two more things to Ray: "Ease his pain" and "Go the distance", and yet the dreaming, idealistic man knows just what it is he has to do. Needing no further explanation, Kinsella visualizes the ball field he is being asked to create in the middle of his field of corn. It speaks to him the famous line, "If you build it, he will come". (Nov.Ray Kinsella, sitting on the porch of his Iowa farm one evening, hears the voice of a ghostly baseball announcer. She is revered and feared until she melts a foolhardy boy who exposes himself and the villagers come after her. Most compelling is the story of the appearance of Sister Ann in an Iowa cornfield she claims she's waiting for a miracle. These tales (the title story grew into the novel Shoeless Joe, which in turn was the basis for the film Field of Dreams ) are best when they venture into the fantastic and the narrative supersedes heavy-handed description and shallow characters.
Walter Ives Institute for the Emotionally Disturbed, trying to convince the staff he really is crazy. A widowed father, visited by a childhood friend with rapidly dissipating magical powers who needs his help for one last trick, commits a series of small crimes and ends up in the J. An aluminum-window salesman who routinely picks up women while traveling on business, inventing new identities for himself and for them during whatever time they have for escaping from everyday life, meets someone who instinctively knows how to play the game, and his ordered existence is threatened. Most of the stories in this collection by Kinsella are about men grappling with significant life choices and often blurring the line between fantasy and reality in the process.
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