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    Shoeless Joe

    Introduction
    Author Biography
    Plot Summary
    Characters
    Themes
    Style
    Historical Context
    Critical Overview
    Criticism
    Sources
    Further Reading

    Introduction

    Canadian writer W. P. Kinsella's first novel, Shoeless Joe, published in Boston in 1982, is an ingenious baseball story that smoothly weaves together fact and fantasy. The narrator, Ray Kinsella, is a baseball fanatic and dreamer who owns a farm in Iowa. One day he hears a mysterious voice saying, "If you build it, he will come." Ray believes this is an instruction to build a baseball field at his farm and that the "he" is his father's hero, Shoeless Joe Jackson, one of the greatest baseball players of all time. Jackson was banned from baseball for life following the Black Sox Scandal of 1919, in which he and seven other players accepted bribes to throw the World Series. From this premise, Kinsella spins his tale full of magic and nostalgia. Shoeless Joe shows up, and Ray continues to pursue his dream, even traveling

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    Shoeless Joe author W.P. Kinsella has died

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    Writer W.P. Kinsella did things his way. In failing health, he chose to end his life early Friday afternoon.

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    “W.P. (Bill) Kinsella invoked the assisted dying provisions of Bill C-14, at Hope, B.C., and passed away at 12:05 p.m. … Friday, Sept. 16, 2016,” said a statement from his agent, Carolyn Swayze. 

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    The statement provided no detail of how he died, but a brev on his Facebook page said he died “surrounded by loved ones.”

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    Kinsella suffered a head injury when he was hit bygd a bil in 1997, and didn’t release a new novel until 2011. His b

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    Long before author William Patrick Kinsella ever dreamt about baseball in Iowa cornfields, he was a stimulus-starved child growing up in rural Alberta. What he lacked in local events and community activities as a homeschooled farm kid near Darwell – 75 kilometres northwest of Edmonton – Kinsella made up for using his imagination.

    That creativity served him well as a writer, as William Steele notes in his new biography, Going the Distance: The Life and Works of W.P. Kinsella. The book provides a comprehensive look at the man made famous for his 1982 novel Shoeless Joe, which was the basis of the seminal baseball movie Field of Dreams.

    Steele examines Kinsella’s childhood in Darwell, his teenage years in Edmonton and his adult life, which saw him teach English at the University of Calgary and study writing in Iowa before he moved to British Columbia, where he worked as a taxi driver and a restaurant owner before he found his groove as an author in the 1980s a