Shoeless Joe (Masterplots II: American Fiction Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: W. P. Kinsella
- First Published: 1982
- Type of Plot: Sports
- Time of Work: The 1970’s
- Setting: Iowa, Boston, and Chisholm, Minnesota
- Principal Characters: Ray Kinsella, Annie Kinsella, Karin Kinsella, Mark, Shoeless Joe Jackson, J. D. Salinger, Archibald “Moonlight” Graham, Johnny Kinsella
- Genres: Long fiction, Historical fiction, Fantasy, Sports fiction
- Subjects: 1970’s, Family or family life, Parents and children, Supernatural, Ghosts or apparitions, Midwest, Farms, farmers, or farming, Fathers, Baseball, Athletes, Sports
- Locales: Boston, MA, Iowa, Minnesota
The Novel
Shoeless Joe is a baseball story with a large admixture of fantasy. “Shoeless” was the nickname of Joe Jackson, a player on the infamous Chicago White Sox team of 1919 that lost the World Series in the biggest scandal in the history of professional baseball. Eight players, including Jackson, admitted to taking bribes from gamblers who paid them to lose the series. They were suspended for life from organized baseball.
Sixty years later, an Iowa farmer named Ray Kinsella, while sitting on his front porch, hears a baseball announcer’s voice that tells...
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