num_pages: 243
description: This is a novel about sex, religion and baseball. A Mennonite-Canadian farmer becomes the greatest baseball player in history while stumbling and bumbling over the hills of love; a young woman is stalked by a vacuum cleaner salesman from California; a black woman from North Bay manages the Blue Jays into the World Series; and we're just getting into the wind-up. Armin Wiebe, author of The Salvation of Yasch Siemens and The Second Coming of Yeeat Schpanst, says "Janzen Kooistra has created a fast moving novel with a lovable character who will make readers laugh and cry and revel in this glorious human condition we know as life. I would say it's more inventive than W.P. Kinsella's "if you build it he will come "Shoeless Joe" ... ; it's just as literary and for sure, a whole lot funnier."
language: English
title: Shoo-fly Dyck
titlecomplete: Shoo-fly Dyck
ratings_count: 2
publisher: Catchfire Press in association with McCabe Pub