num_pages: 224
description: "Wild...Romantic...Unconventional...A triumph of hope."THE BOSTON GLOBEThe voice of a baseball announcer tells the Iowa farmer Ray Kinsella: "If you build it, he will come." "He" is Shoeless Joe Jackson, Ray's hero. "It" is a baseball stadium which Ray carves out of his cornfield. Like the movie FIELD OF DREAMS that was made from this novel, SHOELESS JOE is about baseball. But it's also about love and the power of dreams to make people come alive....
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