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"Wild...Romantic...Unconventional...A triumph of hope."
THE BOSTON GLOBE
The voice of a baseball announcer tells the Iowa farmer Ray Kinsella: "If you build it, he will come." "He" is Shoeless Joe Jackson, Ray's hero. "It" is a baseball stadium which Ray carves out of his cornfield. Like the movie FIELD OF DREAMS that was made from this novel, SHOELESS JOE is about baseball. But it's also about love and the power of dreams to make people come alive....
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THE BOSTON GLOBE
The voice of a baseball announcer tells the Iowa farmer Ray Kinsella: "If you build it, he will come." "He" is Shoeless Joe Jackson, Ray's hero. "It" is a baseball stadium which Ray carves out of his cornfield. Like the movie FIELD OF DREAMS that was made from this novel, SHOELESS JOE is about baseball. But it's also about love and the power of dreams to make people come alive....
From the Paperback edition. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Mass Market Paperback
Shoeless joe is a finely woven tale of passion, dreams and redemption. The theme of baseball is merely a backdrop for a magical glimpse of life and american culture the author Kinsella uses to to portray the life of iowa farmer ray kinsella, who upon hearing the omninous voice of a baseball announcer is inspired to build a baseball field on his farm. A fine sub-plot involving reclusive american author J.D Salinger and past baseball greats kinsella threads these together to create a story with elements of the cosmic,intrigue, humour and tender human emotion, without divulging the reader with foreign baseball technicalities and jargon. An original and beautfully written book. Well recommended.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is a lovely book, not quite the same story as the film that was based on the book, "Field of Dreams", it is a much better story. Well written and magical.
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enjoyable but don't expect the film
basic premise the same as field of dream "build ita nd he will come" but don't expect doc graham and also you see a lot more of family characters not featured in the film. Read more
Published on 9 May 2008 by G. Bagshaw
Watch the film(Field of Dreams) and leave the book to the Americans
Well it's supposed to be about dreams, magic, life and not about baseball...wrong it's about baseball and an American understanding that baseball is a way to unlock dreams, magic,... Read more
Published on 16 Mar 2008 by John
Shoeless Joe...good, but not one of the greats
Alot of you will know of this book as a result of the Kevin Costner film 'Field of Dreams' and it is worth reading this book even just to compare the two. Read more
Published on 13 Feb 2004 by Mark
ALL OVER THE PLACE
Nothing like the movie. Not a great writer. One good idea done in a fairly lifeless way.
Published on 12 Feb 2004 by SH_
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