Published in time for his eightieth birthday, the collection is an interesting retrospective of Kinsella’s most popular stories, such as “Shoeless Joe Jackson Comes to Iowa,” and some of his lesser-known works. And for those readers who are new to Kinsella’s fiction or who may only know his baseball novels such as Shoeless Joe and The Iowa Baseball Confederacy, these stories will introduce them to the Silas Ermineskin narratives from the Hobbema Reservation in Alberta, Canada his short vignettes written in the style of his favorite author, Richard Brautigan and his baseball stories that were not used as chapters of his later novels. For his longtime fans, this collection is a reminder of his strength as a storyteller, his sharp wit and satiric observations, and his characters whom the readers come to recognize as people they’ve known for years. Though his most recent novel, Butterfly Winter, was released in 2011, it has been fifteen years since his last collection of short fiction was published. Kinsella is like rekindling a friendship after several years away. For the first time, however, he has compiled an all-star lineup of his most memorable works, including one original piece, “Do Not Abandon Me,” and some previously published but uncollected stories from recent years. Kinsella has since released fifteen volumes of short fiction, seven novels, and two collections of poetry. After publishing his first collection of short stories in 1977, Canadian writer W.
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