Publication

1999-04-28 - Houghton Mifflin

Language

English

Word Count

68,000 words, Guess

Page Count

272 pages

Identifiers

and 9 more
  • OCLC Control Number41416409
  • Better World BooksP6-AIV-130
  • Better World Books9780395957738
  • Better World BooksW6-BYH-036
  • Better World BooksW6-APX-540
  • Better World BooksW6-CGW-308
  • Better World BooksP6-BJH-176
  • Better World BooksO6-CIA-460
  • Open LibraryOL7468834M

Classifications

  • LCCPR9199.3.K443
  • DDC813/.54
  • LCCPR9199.3.K443 S49 1982

Description

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.

First Sentence

My father said he saw him years later playing in a tenth-rate commercial league in a textile town in Carolina, wearing shoes and an assumed name.

Excerpt

My father said he saw him years later playing in a tenth-rate commercial league in a textile town in Carolina, wearing shoes and an assumed name.

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