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8 reviews
W. P. Kinsella

Voyageur Press, 2001

Iowa , baseball, and love
Kinsella does it again! As in Shoeless Joe and Iowa Baseball Confederacy, he returns to the theme of Iowa, baseball, and true love. A solid triple, not quite the grand slam of previous novels, but fun. You know where it is going, and yet you enjoy the ride. Mike Houle is a great college player who had a terrible senior year...and yet reports to Grand Mound, Iowa, for Cornbelt League. Or does ...

The Iowa Baseball Confederacy: A Novel

33 reviews
W. P. Kinsella

Mariner Books, 2003

Another Classic Baseball Novel
W.P. Kinsella is one of my all-time favorite writers, and this is one of his better novels. If you've seen the movie, "Field of Dreams," or read his book "Shoeless Joe," which was the basis for the movie, you know what to expect from Kinsella. His stories of baseball and magic are written for readers with vivid imaginations. This is a story of a researcher looking for proof of an old ...

Brother Frank's Gospel Hour: Stories

2 reviews
W. P. Kinsella

Southern Methodist University Press, 1996

Warm, touching, and human -- and absolutely hilarious
If you don't laugh out loud at least once in each of these stories, there's something wrong with you. Deeply felt and very wise, these stories still manage to be sidesplittingly funny. Kinsella is possessed of a unique and very readable style, and fills his work to bursting with amazing people and amazing adventures. He's a true original.

Shoeless Joe

90 reviews
W. P. Kinsella

Mariner Books, 1999

If you read it, a cliche wil vanish
Somewhere along the road the phrase 'if you build it, they will come' has come to signify a sort of brainless reassurance. In fact, the message of the book is that if you build something with a clarity of vision and purity of heart, there will be results worthy of your effort. Reading this beautiful book about baseball (and make no mistake, it's really about baseball)will liberate you from the ...

The Thrill of the Grass (Penguin Short Fiction)

9 reviews
W.P. Kinsella

Penguin (Non-Classics), 1985

Classic baseball fiction, especially for Cub fans
W. P. Kinsella writes with poignance and wit, capturing both the humor and the occasional tragedy of the game. This collection displays some of his best work. My alltime favorite among this collection is "The Last Pennant Before Armageddon." In the wake of the Cubs' collapse this fall, a work like this has real prescience and is somehow reassuring that there was a higher purpose behind it ...

Rosebud : The Magazine for People who Enjoy Good Writing Issue 23
Kandis Elliot, Robert Crumb, Philip K. Dick, Gahan Wilson, Ray Vukcevich, R. Crumb, W.P. Kinsella, Joe R. Lansdale Ursula K. Leguin

Roderick Clark, 2002

Selected Shorts: Baseball (Selected Shorts: A Celebration of the Short Story)

2 reviews
W. P. Kinsella, T. Coraghessan Boyle, ...

Symphony Space, 2006

wonderful stories of baseball and americana!
What more can I say but excellent! I encourage any fan of baseball but more generally, those interested in American history and culture, to purchase this CD collection. It's insightful, humorous, and informative about America's pastime.

Dance Me Outside

1 review
W. P. Kinsella

Oberon Pr, 1984

A great read!
This is a WP Kinsella classic! First read it years ago, and bought it to re-read the stories, which can be read over and over again. They are funny, entertaining, and a bit emotional. Get ready to laugh out loud. The stories are very easy to read and are great for all ages.

The Fencepost Chronicles

2 reviews
W. P. Kinsella

Houghton Mifflin, 1987

The FUNNIEST book ever written!!!
This book has short stories from a real reserve near two real towns (Wetaskiwin and Hobbema) in Alberta, Canada. The characters are amazingly funny and real. The way he writes this book it is like he spent 20 years of his life living with Native Americans! I wouldn't want to get stuck on this reserve! A must-read book! It is sooo goood that money is no object! A book to laugh at and to lift your ...

The Secret of the Northern Lights
W.P. Kinsella

Thistledown Press, 1998

The Secret of the Northern Lights continues the chronicle which has delighted thousands and outraged a select few since Silas Ermineskin first appropriated the English language in 1977 with Dance Me Outside .

When the Giants Were Giants: Bill Terry and the Golden Age of New York Baseball
Peter Williams, W. P. Kinsella

Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1994

Baseball's golden age during the 1920s and 1930s lives again in an insightful look at the career of Bill Terry of the New York Giants, a great player-manager whose reputation as a harsh and stingy man was largely undeserved.

Shoeless Joe Jackson Comes to Iowa: Stories

3 reviews
W. P. Kinsella

Southern Methodist University Press, 1993

This is the best book I have ever read.
I first saw the movie Field of Dreams when I was in the 3rd grade, I loved the movie so much. Then in the 6th grade my teacher started to read us the book, but never even came close to finishing, I was disappointed. Then, this year (10th grade) I read it over Christmas break, and I couldn't put it down. I have never read a book that could calm me down and not make me sleepy. I had to get my ...

Baseball Fantastic

1 review
W.P. Kinsella

Quarry Press, 2001

Speculative Baseball Fiction
W.P. Kinsella's quote on the cover says everything: "Baseball knows no limits, and the true baseball field, the foul lines diverge forever, eventually taking in most, or all of the universe." If you're into speculative/science fiction and baseball, this book offers many treats. Included are a few of Kinsella's short stories ("Fred Noonan Flying Services", "The Indestructable Hadrian Wilks"), ...

The Moccasin Telegraph and Other Indian Tales (Nonpareil Book, No 72)

2 reviews
W. P. Kinsella

David R. Godine Publisher, 1994

Very real stories about very real people
Kinsella paints a somewhat bleak yet very warming image of reservation life. It's hard not to feel personally connected to the main characters, in part because of the slightly naive writing style of Silas Ermineskin, the young Native American writer through whom these stories are told. The subjects of the stories are very real people, with very real problems and emotions: love, jealousy, poverty, ...

W P Kinsella Omnibus
P. W. Kinsella

HarperCollins Publishers Canada, Limited, 2004

Box Socials

12 reviews
W.P. Kinsella

Ballantine Books, 1993

simply astounding
The view into the life of an alberta youth by kinsella is a one of a kind book. Kinsella wraps you into the culture of the small town in which the novel is based, doing an incomperable job of getting you involved with not only the lead, but every character involved. They way in which Kinsella writes this book, it is as if it wasn't a novel at all, but an autobiography; as if Kinsella had lived ...

The Dixon Cornbelt League, and Other Baseball Stories

6 reviews
W. P. Kinsella

Harpercollins, 1995

More than just baseball...
W.P. Kinsella comes back with another great collection of short stories in this book. His stories are not just about baseball. They are about life itself, with a touch of magic and fantasy. My favorite is the title story, which has a very interesting twist to it. Ever since I found "Shoeless Joe", Kinsella has never ceased to amaze me, and I can read his books again and again without putting ...

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