The Essential W. P. Kinsella

The Essential W. P. Kinsella

<div>This career retrospective celebrates the 80th birthday of baseball's greatest scribe, W. P. Kinsella (<I>Shoeless Joe</I>), as well as the 25th anniversary of <I>Field of Dreams</I>, the film that he inspired.<br /><BR>In addition to his classic baseball tales, W. P. Kinsella is also a critically-acclaimed short fiction writer. His satiric wit has been celebrated with numerous honors, including the Order of British Columbia.<br /><BR>Here are his notorious First Nation narratives of indigenous Canadians, and a literary homage to J. D. Salinger. Alongside the "real" story of the 1951 Giants and the afterlife of Roberto Clemente, are the legends of a pirated radio station and a hockey game rigged by tribal magic.<BR><BR>Eclectic, dark, and comedic by turns, <I>The Essential W. P. Kinsella</I> is a living tribute to an extraordinary raconteur.<BR></div>