Shoeless Joe | Literary Precedents
Kinsella's Shoeless ]oe belongs to the American sports-literature tradition that includes poems, essays, short stories, and novels about all forms of Shoeless foe sports. Among the sport novels are, to suggest a few, Lawrence Shainberg's One On One (basketball); Leonard Gardner's Fat City (boxing); Peter Gent's North Dallas Forty (1973, football); Bernard Malamud's The Natural (1952) and Robert Coover's The Universal Baseball Association (1968, baseball). These novels expose some of the unsavory aspects of their various sports; for example, the...
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