num_pages: 265
description: Motivated by his fanatical love of baseball, Ray Kinsella is inspired to build a baseball stadium in his corn field, dedicated to his hero, the legendary Shoeless Joe Jackson, in a novel that became the inspiration for the film Field of Dreams. Reprint.
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: 15132
places: Iowa
awards: awardedAt: 410256000000
name: Canadian Authors Association Award
category: Fiction
publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt