Shoeless Joe by W. P. Kinsella; Unabridged MP3 Audio Book; Narrator Stephen Sartarelli

Shoeless Joe, the soul-stirring novel on which the movie Field of Dreams is based, is more than just another baseball story. Kinsella captures the spiritual dimension that baseball represents for its most determined devotees in this tale of love and the power of dreams to make people come alive.

“Shoeless Joe” is the great Joe Jackson, one of the eight members of the 1919 Chicago White Sox who were banned from baseball for throwing the World Series. One day, while out in his corn field, Iowa farmer Ray Kinsella hears the voice of a baseball announcer saying, “If you build it, he will come.” “He,” of course, is Ray's hero, Joe Jackson. “It” is a baseball stadium, which Ray carves out of his corn field.

“Wild...romantic...unconventional....A triumph of hope.”—Boston Globe

“Not so much about baseball as it is about dreams, magic, life, and what is quintessentially American.”—Philadelphia Inquirer

“Tom Parker’s unobtrusive reading lets the full color of the words speak for themselves.” —Library Journal

“Kinsella plays with both myth and fantasy in his lyrical novel…Like Ring Lardner and Bernard Malamud before him, Kinsella spins baseball as backdrop and metaphor, and, like his predecessors, uses the game to tell us a little something more about who we are and what we need."—Amazon.com Review

W. P. Kinsella, recipient of a Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship and the Stephen Leacock Award for Humour, is the author of numerous novels and highly acclaimed short story collections. In 1993, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada, the highest civilian honor in Canada. He currently lives in Yale, British Columbia, with his wife, Barbara.

Stephen Sartarelli is an award-winning translator and poet. He lives in France.