Shoeless Joe (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: W. P. Kinsella
- First Published: 1982
- Type of Work: Novel
- 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
A novel-length baseball fable that details the adventures of an Iowa farmer named Ray Kinsella who builds a baseball diamond in his cornfield in the hope of bringing disgraced baseball legend Shoeless Joe Jackson back to life, Shoeless Joe is based on the title story from Kinsella's 1980 story collection Shoeless Joe Jackson Comes to Iowa and is the author's first novel. If some critics accuse the book of sentimentality, it is because Shoeless Joe has none of the elements—sex, violence, and obscenity—that have become so commonplace in contemporary literature...
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