Here are his notorious First Nation narratives of indigenous Canadians, and a literary homage to J. His satiric wit has been celebrated with numerous honors, including the Order of British Columbia. Kinsella is also a critically-acclaimed short fiction writer. In addition to his classic baseball tales, W. Kinsella ( Shoeless Joe), as well as the 25th anniversary of Field of Dreams, the film that he inspired. Like Ring Lardner and Bernard Malamud before 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.This career retrospective celebrates the 80th birthday of baseball’s greatest scribe, W. In Kinsella's hands, it's all about as simple, and complex, as the object of baseball itself: coming home. 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. Like Ring Lardner and Bernard Malamud before 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.", W.
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