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3.0 out of 5 stars
Not just baseball stories,
By Mindme "I buy cereal when on sale" (Kirkland, WA USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Red wolf, red wolf (Hardcover)
Who's a funny fella? WP Kinsella. Although he's not so funny in Red wolf, red wolf. The blurb on the back of Red wolf, red wolf promises a collection of Kinsella stories that shift from the baseball diamond (as in Shoeless Joe aka Field of Dreams) and the Indian reservation (as in thea Silas Ermineskin novels). However that proves a bit misleading as three of the thirteen short stories have to do with baseball. I've not read any of Kinsella's baseball books but I've devoured every Ermineskin novel I could find (they're all out of print). Red Wolf does not match his Indian books in terms of humor, however. So if you're looking for folksy stories about the little guy confounded by, confronting, and beating the system, this book doesn't really have it. All in all it's decent enough, even read. Nothing really jumps out at you. The story "Lieberman in Love" has a bit of a Hollywood feel to it (and it was eventually made into a movie). "Elvis Bound" is another decent story. It's about a baseball player who has a wife who can't make love unless she's looking at a picture of Elvis. "Apartheid", a story about the class system within a small university's English department, offers a few amusing peaks, promises a lot, but kind of fails to deliver. |
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Red Wolf, Red Wolf by W. P. Kinsella (Paperback - 1988)
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