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Shoeless Joe

The book Shoeless Joe was made into the movie Field of Dreams.

Which one did you like better, the book or the movie?  There are 4 votes for the book, and 6 votes for the movie.

Book details for Shoeless Joe

Shoeless Joe was written by W. P. Kinsella. The book was published in 1982 by Mariner Books. More information on the book is available on Amazon.com.

 

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W. P. Kinsella plays with both myth and fantasy in his lyrical novel, which was adapted into the enormously popular movie, Field of Dreams. It begins with the magic of a godlike voice in a cornfield, and ends with the magic of a son playing catch with the... Read More
W. P. Kinsella plays with both myth and fantasy in his lyrical novel, which was adapted into the enormously popular movie, Field of Dreams. It begins with the magic of a godlike voice in a cornfield, and ends with the magic of a son playing catch with the ghost of his father. In Kinsella's hands, it's all about as simple, and complex, as the object of baseball itself: coming home. Like Ring Lardner and Bernard Malamud before him, Kinsella spins baseball as backdrop and metaphor, and, like his predecessors, uses the game to tell us a little something more about who we are and what we need.