

The Iowa Baseball Confederacy
Author: W. P. Kinsella
Narrator: Grover Gardner
Unabridged: 8 hr 24 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Published: 02/14/2014
Author: W. P. Kinsella
Narrator: Grover Gardner
Unabridged: 8 hr 24 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Published: 02/14/2014
W. P. Kinsella (1935-2016) was a Canadian novelist, short-story writer, and poet who won numerous awards for his work, including the Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship and the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humor. In 1993 he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada, their highest civilian honor. He is best known for his novel Shoeless Joe, basis for the award-winning motion picture Field of Dreams.
"I won't be moved". If this novel is typical of magical realism, I won't be moved to read another example. While the plot had the making of a good story in the mold of Darryl Brock's "If I never get back", the fantasy and mysticism of Kinsella's book falls flat. It is repetitious and even a baseball......more