W P Kinsella: 6 books

This career retrospective celebrates the 80th birthday of baseball's greatest scribe, W. P. Kinsella (Shoeless Joe), as well as the 25th anniversary of Field of Dreams, the film that he inspired.In addition to his classic baseball tales, W. P. Kinsella is also a critically-acclaimed short fiction writer....

“A memorable addition to the literature about the summer’s game” from the author of Shoeless Joe—the basis for the film Field of Dreams (Detroit Free Press). Bearing W. P. Kinsella’s trademark combination of “sweet-natured prose and a richly imagined world,” The Iowa Baseball...

Russian Dolls weaves in and out of the real and imaginary worlds of Wylie, a struggling author and self-proclaimed “unreliable narrator”, as he finds and then loses his muse, Christie, in their shared home - aptly named the “Breathing Castle” - in East Vancouver. Woven into the story of their...

The novel that inspired Field of Dreams: “A lyrical, seductive, and altogether winning concoction.” —The New York Times Book Review One of Sports Illustrated*’s 100 Greatest Sports Books* “If you build it, he will come.” When Ray Kinsella hears these mysterious words spoken...

A “warmhearted” small-town novel, full of “endearing characters and baseball lore,” by the author of Shoeless Joe (Publishers Weekly). Mike Houle is a college all-star second baseman in his junior year when he turns down a fourth-round draft pick offer from the Montreal Expos. He’ll...

The invasion of the future has begun.Literary legends including Steven Millhauser, Junot Diáz, Amiri Baraka, and Katharine Dunn have attacked the borders of the every day. Like time traveling mad-scientists, they have concocted outrageous creations from the future. They have seized upon tales of technology...