E-audiobook
Shoeless Joe [electronic resource] / W.P. Kinsella.
One day while out in his corn field, Iowa farmer Ray Kinsella hears a voice saying, "If you build it, he will come." "He," of course, is Ray's hero, Shoeless Joe Jackson. "It" is a baseball stadium, which Ray carves out of his corn field.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781433250088 (electronic audio bk.)
- ISBN: 143325008X (electronic audio bk.)
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (1 sound file (8 hr.))
- Publisher: [Ashland, Or.] : Blackstone Audio, Inc., 2011.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Unabridged. Audio file. Title from image on Web page (viewed May 31, 2011). Previously released on compact disc, 2008. Duration: 8:00:00. |
| Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Grover Gardner. |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | Jackson, Joe, 1888-1951 > Fiction. Baseball players > Iowa > Fiction. Farmers > Iowa > Fiction. FICTION > General. |
| Genre: | Downloadable audio books. Fantastic fiction. Audiobooks. |
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Electronic resources
- Baker & Taylor
Ray Kinsella's fanatic love of baseball drives him to build a baseball stadium in his corn field and kidnap author J.D. Salinger and bring him to a baseball game. - Findaway World Llc
Shoeless Joe, the soul-stirring novel on which the movie Field of Dreams is based, is more than just another baseball story. Kinsella captures the spiritual dimension that baseball represents for its most determined devotees in this tale of love and the power of dreams to make people come alive.Shoeless Joe is the great Joe Jackson, one of the eight members of the 1919 Chicago White Sox who were banned from baseball for throwing the World Series. One day, while out in his corn field, Iowa farmer Ray Kinsella hears the voice of a baseball announcer saying, If you build it, he will come. He, of course, is Ray's hero, Joe Jackson. It is a baseball stadium, which Ray carves out of his corn field.
