The Dixon Cornbelt League and Other Baseball Stories

Author:   W P Kinsella ,  W P Kinsella
Publisher:   University of Nebraska Press
ISBN:  

9780803278165


Pages:   180
Publication Date:   01 September 2004
Format:   Paperback
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained


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Shortstops who run with the wolves, painted eggs that reveal deeply disturbing meanings, long-dead Hall of Famers who miraculously return to the game, an Iowa minor-league town with a secret conspiracy: these are the elements from which W. P. Kinsella weaves nine fabulous stories about the magical world of baseball. From the dugouts, clubhouses, bedrooms, and barrooms to the interior worlds of hope and despair, these eerie stories present the absurdities of human relationships and reveal the writer's special genius for touching the heart.

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Author:   W P Kinsella ,  W P Kinsella
Publisher:   University of Nebraska Press
Imprint:   University of Nebraska Press
Dimensions:   Width: 12.80cm , Height: 1.10cm , Length: 20.30cm
Weight:   0.195kg
ISBN:  

9780803278165


ISBN 10:   0803278160
Pages:   180
Publication Date:   01 September 2004
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained

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Stories that read like lightning and tantalize the reader with fascinating scenarios.--Publishers Weekly-- Publishers Weekly His short stories about baseball are wistful things of beauty which serve to remind us how the game should feel--the innate glory of a diamond etched in the minds of Americans.--Calgary Sun-- Calgary Sun [Kinsella] uses baseball. . . . As a familiar starting place for exploring, with pinpoint control, the human psyche.--Booklist-- Booklist [Kinsella] defines a world in which magic and reality combine to make us laugh and think about the perceptions we take for granted.--New York Times-- New York Times


His short stories about baseball are wistful things of beauty which serve to remind us how the game should feel--the innate glory of a diamond etched in the minds of Americans. -- Calgary Sun


His short stories about baseball are wistful things of beauty which serve to remind us how the game should feel--the innate glory of a diamond etched in the minds of Americans. -- Calgary Sun <br>


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W. P. Kinsella is the author of more than two hundred short stories and fifteen books, including The Iowa Baseball Confederacy and Shoeless Joe, which became the basis for the film Field of Dreams. A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, Kinsella has been honored with the prestigious Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship and has taught writing at the University of Victoria.

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