This career retrospective celebrates the 80th birthday of baseball's greatest scribe, W. P. Kinsella (
Shoeless Joe), as well as the 25th anniversary of
Field of Dreams, the film that he inspired.
In addition to his classic baseball tales, W. P. Kinsella is also a critically-acclaimed short fiction writer. His satiric wit has been celebrated with numerous honors, including the Order of British Columbia.
Here are his notorious First Nation narratives of indigenous Canadians, and a literary homage to J. D. Salinger. Alongside the "real" story of the 1951 Giants and the afterlife of Roberto Clemente, are the legends of a pirated radio station and a hockey game rigged by tribal magic.
Eclectic, dark, and comedic by turns,
The Essential W. P. Kinsella is a living tribute to an extraordinary raconteur.