SHOELESS JOE [SIGNED 1st/1st Edition]

W.P. Kinsella

ISBN 10: 039532047X / ISBN 13: 9780395320471

Published by Houghton Mifflin, 1982

About this Item

The author's signature is tipped in. No inscription. A Fine book housed in a Near Fine Dust Jacket. First Edition with number line all the way to "1" Hardcover. A Fine, bright unmarked copy. In the original Dust Jacket with the price of $11.95 intact. The jacket has light wear to the extremities, else Very Good to Near Fine. See photos. A very nice copy of the book upon which the famous film "Field of Dreams" is based. Robust shipping.

Seller Inventory # 0078182

Bibliographic Details

• Title: SHOELESS JOE [SIGNED 1st/1st Edition]
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Publication Date: 1982
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 039532047X
• ISBN 13: 9780395320471
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Weight: 600 grams
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

Motivated by his fanatical love of baseball, Ray Kinsella is inspired to build a baseball stadium in his corn field, dedicated to his hero, the legendary Shoeless Joe Jackson, in a novel that became the inspiration for the film Field of Dreams. Reprint.

Review

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.