| The Iowa Baseball Confederacy Contributor(s): Kinsella, W. P. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0618340807 ISBN-13: 9780618340804 Publisher: Mariner Books OUR PRICE: $18.99 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2003 Annotation: From the author of the bestselling "Shoeless Joe" comes another vintage baseball tale that "like magic . . . holds together and entices you from one page to the next, until at the end you ache for more" ("Milwaukee Journal"). |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Sports - Fiction | Magical Realism - Fiction | Family Life - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.5" W x 8.4" (0.90 lbs) 320 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century - Cultural Region - Heartland - Geographic Orientation - Iowa |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Bearing W.P. Kinsella's trademark combination of sweet-natured prose and a richly imagined world (Philadelphia Inquirer), The Iowa Baseball Confederacy tells the story of Gideon Clark, a man on a quest. He is out to prove to the world that the indomitable Chicago Cubs traveled to Iowa in the summer of 1908 for an exhibition game against an amateur league, the Iowa Baseball Confederacy. But a simple game somehow turned into a titanic battle of more than two thousand innings, and Gideon Clark struggles to set the record straight on this infamous game that no one else believes ever happened. |
Contributor Bio(s): Kinsella, W. P.: - W. P. Kinsella (1935-2016) was the author of numerous works of fiction, including the best-selling Shoeless Joe, for which he won the Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship, The Iowa Baseball Confederacy, and eleven highly acclaimed short story collections. |