A Member of the Local Nine: Baseball and Identity in the Fiction of W.P. Kinsella

"The first in-depth study of Kinsella's fiction since 1987, this book offers a unique and updated analysis. Utilizing a variety of approaches and the hermeneutical lenses of race, gender, class, religion, sexuality, and post colonialism, this comprehensive text covers the five novels and numerous short stories featuring baseball"--Provided by publisher.