Synopses & Reviews
Review
"Known widely as creator of the cinematic cast of Field of Dreams, W.P. Kinsella has also published more than 200 short stories. Many of those take us back to the sometimes mythical, often allegorical land of baseball. This new collection contains a dozen nonbaseball stories, loosely organized around the notion that turns of fate are often signaled by the unexpected appearance of a stranger. While those stories are of even quality, none is so captivating as the 13th tale, the single story with a baseball motif. Narrated by a past-due ball-player whose down-home, tattooed wife insists on a life-size poster of Elvis mounted to survey the marriage bed, this story takes Kinsella back to the sound he knows best, speech measured in the pastoral rhythms of the national game." Reviewed by Daniel Weiss, Virginia Quarterly Review (Copyright 2006 Virginia Quarterly Review)