Post by Deleted on Sept 17, 2016 15:25:01 GMT 7
Canadian novelist WP Kinsella, who blended magical realism and baseball in the book that became the smash hit film Field of Dreams, has died. He was 81.
His literary agent Carolyn Swayze said in a statement that Kinsella’s death on Friday in Hope, British Columbia was doctor-assisted.
Assisted deaths became legal in Canada in June, 2016.
In the 1982 novel Shoeless Joe, a farmer hears a voice telling him to build a baseball diamond in his corn fields. When he does, Shoeless Joe Jackson and other baseball players of yesteryear come to play. It became the blueprint for the 1989 Oscar-nominated movie, which starred Kevin Costner, James Earl Jones and Ray Liotta.
Key turns of phrases in Kinsella’s book “If you build it, they will come” and “Go the distance” have taken their place in literature’s lexicon and among Hollywood’s most memorable movie lines.
Kinsella, a bona fide baseball junkie, loved the movie and said he had tears in his eyes when he first saw it.
www.theguardian.com/books/2016/sep/17/field-of-dreams-author-ends-his-life-under-assisted-dying-legislation
His literary agent Carolyn Swayze said in a statement that Kinsella’s death on Friday in Hope, British Columbia was doctor-assisted.
Assisted deaths became legal in Canada in June, 2016.
In the 1982 novel Shoeless Joe, a farmer hears a voice telling him to build a baseball diamond in his corn fields. When he does, Shoeless Joe Jackson and other baseball players of yesteryear come to play. It became the blueprint for the 1989 Oscar-nominated movie, which starred Kevin Costner, James Earl Jones and Ray Liotta.
Key turns of phrases in Kinsella’s book “If you build it, they will come” and “Go the distance” have taken their place in literature’s lexicon and among Hollywood’s most memorable movie lines.
Kinsella, a bona fide baseball junkie, loved the movie and said he had tears in his eyes when he first saw it.
www.theguardian.com/books/2016/sep/17/field-of-dreams-author-ends-his-life-under-assisted-dying-legislation
