The Iowa Baseball Confederacy, W. P. Kinsella
The Iowa Baseball Confederacy, W. P. Kinsella
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The Iowa Baseball Confederacy

Author: W. P. Kinsella

Narrator: Grover Gardner

Unabridged: 8 hr 24 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/14/2014

Categories: Fiction, Sports


Synopsis

Gideon Clarke is a man on a quest. He is out to prove to the world, as his father tried before him, that the world-champion Chicago Cubs traveled to Onamata, Iowa, in the summer of 1908 for an exhibition game against all-stars from the Iowa Baseball Confederacy, an amateur league. The game, which was to be short, pleasant, and, the Cubs thought, one-sided, turned into a titanic battle of over two thousand innings, played mostly in the pouring rain. This game is not on the record books. No one remembers it or the Confederacy. But Gideon Clarke knows it happened, and he is determined to set the record straight. Like in his previous novel, Shoeless Joe, which was the basis for the movie Field of Dreams, Kinsella creates a loving mixture of baseball, life and fantasy, in a world where dreams don't have to come true, because they have a validity all their own (Publishers Weekly).

About W. P. Kinsella

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.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Harold

"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