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Shoeless Joe (novel)
''Shoeless Joe'' is a 1982 magic realist novel by Canadian author W. P. Kinsella that was later adapted into the 1989 film ''Field of Dreams'', which was nominated for three Academy Awards. The novel was expanded from Kinsella's short story "Shoeless Joe Jackson Comes to Iowa", first published in his 1980 collection of the same name. Kinsella first developed the idea for the story while attending the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and decided to incorporate the stories he told about the Black Sox Scandal, imagining if Shoeless Joe Jackson came back to the same city Kinsella was living in, Iowa City. Plot Ray Kinsella lives and farms in Iowa where he grows corn with his wife Annie and their five-year-old daughter Karin. Kinsella is obsessed with the beauty and history of American baseball, specifically the plight of his hero, Shoeless Joe Jackson, and the Black Sox Scandal of the 1919 World Series. When he hears a voice telling him to build a baseball field in the midst of his corn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Houghton Mifflin
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A Young Girl In 1941 With No Waist At All
"A Young Girl in 1941 with No Waist at All" is a short story by J. D. Salinger, published in '' Mademoiselle'' in May 1947. The story has not been published in any anthology. It is of literary interest today largely because the character of Ray is seen as an early version of the character Seymour from Salinger's better known work " A Perfect Day for Bananafish". Plot ''Shoeless Joe'' and ''Field of Dreams'' The story is also of interest to film buffs. The name of the main character, Ray Kinsella, is also the name of the main character in the 1982 book '' Shoeless Joe'' by W. P. Kinsella (who coincidentally shares the character's last name) which was adapted into the film ''Field of Dreams'' (1989). W.P. Kinsella, who had never met Salinger, created a wholly imagined character (aside from his being a recluse) based on the author of ''The Catcher in the Rye'', a book that had great meaning to him when he was a young man. To get a feel for Salinger, he re-read his body of wor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadian Novels Adapted Into Films
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Canadian Magic Realism Novels
Canadians (french: Canadiens) are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their being ''Canadian''. Canada is a multilingual and multicultural society home to people of groups of many different ethnic, religious, and national origins, with the majority of the population made up of Old World immigrants and their descendants. Following the initial period of French and then the much larger British colonization, different waves (or peaks) of immigration and settlement of non-indigenous peoples took place over the course of nearly two centuries and continue today. Elements of Indigenous, French, British, and more recent immigrant customs, languages, and religions have combined to form the culture of Canada, and thus a Canadian identity. Canada has also been strongly influenced by its linguistic, geographic, and eco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
