Shoeless Joe Jackson Comes to Iowa

By W. P. Kinsella,

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Book description

Ten stories deal with a farmer who loves baseball, a carpenter repairing a broken doll, a clever prostitute, and a wandering salesman

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Why read it?

1 author picked Shoeless Joe Jackson Comes to Iowa as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Kinsella was a master at blending two of my favorite things—fiction with supernatural elements in a realistic setting, and also baseball.

The title story was expanded into the novel Shoeless Joe, which later became the movie Field of Dreams, and I was fascinated by how the story changed in those three formats. Plus, the collection is packed with cool historical Americana fiction laced with uncanny happenings.

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