The Iowa Baseball Confederacy (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: W. P. Kinsella
- First Published: 1986
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Historical fiction
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Magic or magicians, Baseball, Iowa
- Locales: Chicago, IL, Iowa
The Iowa Baseball Confederacy again has baseball as its dominant motif. This time, though, Kinsella injects even more elements of magic and mystery, as the reader learns that to be obsessed with baseball is to achieve a sort of mystical state. The narrator here, Gideon Clarke, whose love of baseball was passed down to him by his father, not only is obsessed with a mysterious and mythical baseball event, but also is ultimately given access to a magical realm. Clarke, like his father before him, is out to prove to the world that the Chicago Cubs traveled to Onamata, Iowa, in the...
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