Shoeless Joe
W. P. Kinsella plays with both myth and fantasy in his lyrical novel, which was adapted into the enormously popular movie,Field of Dreams.It begins with the magic of a godlike voice in a cornfield, and ends with the magic of a son playing catch with the ghost of his father. In Kinsella's hands, it's all about as simple, and complex, as the object of baseball itself: coming home. LikeRing LardnerandBernard Malamudbefore him, Kinsella spins baseball as backdrop and metaphor, and, like his predecessors, uses the game to tell us a little something more about who we are and what we need.