num_pages: 224
description: Ray Kinsella's fanatic love of baseball drives him to build a baseball stadium in his corn field and kidnap the author, J.D. Salinger, and bring him to a baseball game
language: English
title: Shoeless Joe
titlecomplete: Shoeless Joe
characters: Ray Kinsella, J.D. Salinger
genres: Fiction, Magical Realism, Baseball, Canada, Sports, Literature, Classics, Novels, Historical Fiction, Fantasy
ratings_count: 15136
places: Iowa
awards: awardedAt: 410256000000
name: Canadian Authors Association Award
category: Fiction
publisher: Ballantine Books