![]() ![]() Shoeless Joe is a parable about one of the most fundamental of American ideals, beginning anew. Rather, he uses it as a metaphor, a way to talk about things like innocence, belief and, perhaps above all, America. While his works all evince a love for the game he grew up watching, Kinsella doesn´t merely treat baseball as a subject in itself. Kinsella has been called a great writer of baseball novels, but this is misleading. ![]() ![]() Kinsella which also inspired Kevin Costner´s exceedingly popular film, Field of Dreams. Thus begins Shoeless Joe, the award-winning novel by W.P. Digging up his corn to build a ballpark will inspire the return of baseball legend Shoeless Joe Jackson, a man whose reputation was forever tarnished by the scandalous 1919 World Series. The voice will speak only two more things to Ray: "Ease his pain" and "Go the distance", and yet the dreaming, idealistic man knows just what it is he has to do. Needing no further explanation, Kinsella visualizes the ball field he is being asked to create in the middle of his field of corn. ![]() It speaks to him the famous line, "If you build it, he will come". Ray Kinsella, sitting on the porch of his Iowa farm one evening, hears the voice of a ghostly baseball announcer. ![]()
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