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Ray Kinsella, an insurance agent turned farmer, begins hearing voices--rather, a Voice. "If you build it, he will come," the Voice tells Ray, who intuitively knows that "he" is Shoeless Joe Jackson, banned from baseball along with the other 1919 "Black Sox." Ray builds a baseball stadium in his cornfield, and waits. But the Voice isn't finished. "Ease his pain," it orders Ray; in this case, the person the Voice is talking about is J. D. Salinger, and Ray must kidnap him and take him to a game at Fenway Park in Boston. This is just the beginning....
| Size | | Length: | 272 pages | | Height: | 8.5 in | | Width: | 5.3 in | | Thickness: | 0.5 in | | Weight: | 10.4 oz |
Industry Reviews
"A work as curious, compelling, artful and mysterious as the game it celebrates. Surely a strong candidate for any literary Hall of Fame."
Book Jacket - George Plimpton
"Any book that has Shoeless Joe Jackson, J. D. Salinger, Fenway Park and Moonlight Graham in it almost before you pause to catch your breath has got to be more fun than Reggie Jackson under a high fly. This is Baseball as it might be on the other side of the moon."
Book Jacket - Jim Murray
"His novel celebrates imagination and effort, wittily posits serious theses on the role of baseball and other art forms, and provokes various kinds of laughter."
Quill and Quire - Terrance Cox (06/19/1982)
"Kinsella does wonders in this book: The visual fantasies are so rich that whether you believe them or not, you can't help imagining them....[Kinsella] has a rare talent for conveying pure joy."
Christian Science Monitor - Maggie Lewis (07/09/1982)
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