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4170 Shoeless Joe Jackson Comes to Iowa Stories, by W. P. Kinsella (read 4 June 2006) I recently saw a list of novels by locale--two for each state. The two for Iowa were A Thousand Acres (which I read 8 Aug 1993) and Shoeless Joe. So I went to the library and this book was there and I thought it was the book listed. But it is a book of short stories. The eponymous story is the one which Kinsella later turned into a full-length novel. There are ten short stories, and as in most books of such the quality varied. Probably the best-liked was "The Grecian Urn," a story of a guy who turns himself and his girlfriend into a part of Keats' Grecian Urn: goofy but appealing. On balance I did not care for Kinsella. ( )