Studies in Short Fiction, January 1st, 1995
One night in Texas, the silence was broken by a loudspeaker-amplified midwestern voice, sounding very like a cola spokesperson, saying, "If you print it, they will buy." Soon the University press brought out a handsome edition of W. P. Kinsella's collection of stories that led eventually to the movie Field of Dreams.
The collection came out in Canada in 1980, but the popular and critical success of the 1989 feel-good movie created a receptive climate for Kinsella's collection, upon the title story of which his prize-winning novel, Shoeless Joe (1982), was based. The title story, while overr...
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