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Box Socials

W.P. Kinsella

Paperback | Pages: 240 pages

Rating: 3.51 | 536 Users | 32 Reviews

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Title	:	Box Socials
Author	:	W.P. Kinsella
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 240 pages
Published	:	March 2nd 1993 by Ballantine Books (first published January 1st 1920)
Categories	:	Fiction. Sports. Baseball. Cultural. Canada. Adult Fiction. Humor

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Box Socials is an engaging ode to rural community life set in rural Canada in the early 1940s. The main story of Truckbox Al McClintock is set aside for almost all of the book in favor of descriptions of the many events, both repetitive and unique, that characterize the relationships between individuals and families in the Six Towns area. Through these many stories, Kinsella captures the essence of the personal connections within the community through the mostly lighthearted viewpoint of a young boy.

Kinsella's writing style was annoying at first, until I imagined that the story was being told to me by a talkative old man recalling his life as a boy; tangentially describing his entire community as he recalled the tale of Truckbox Al McClintock. Kinsella's writing is always beautiful and purposeful, even if it doesn't appear so at first.

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Original Title:	Box Socials
ISBN:	0345382536 (ISBN13: 9780345382535)
Edition Language:	English

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Ratings: 3.51 From 536 Users | 32 Reviews

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Another great summer read about minor league baseball and those who play the game and follow the minor leagues. Small town America is at the core of this great book.

Box Socials is quite different from Shoeless Joe and Iowa Baseball Confederacy. It is a quirky story of small town Alberta in the 1940's. People who were dead poor but did things together like Box Socials. Along the way we are brought to 6 day Ukrainian wedding, Baseball games, Whist drives and Box Socials. The author creates a witty look into this world. He repeats over and over again descriptions of characters everytime they are introduced. This is amusing at first but becomes annoying after

Most people are more familiar with Kinsella's book Shoeless Joe, which the movie "Field of Dreams" was based on, but I prefer Box Socials. In fact, it is probably one of my favorite books of all time.

Thought this might get me in the mood for moving to Alberta but not so sure. Very similar style to Garrison Keillor but a little more depressing, at least in terms of the miserable life most people had during the Depression. No wonder people moved away as often as they came to the province.

To be fair, it is tough to follow up a novel like Shoeless Joe which hit all the points between hokey and heartfelt magnificently

Box Socials is not so much a baseball book, but a story of the people in a small Canadian town in the early 1940s. The story I thought the book would be about, baseball player Truckbox Al McClintock, is not really told till the very end of the book. But to me that wasn't even the most annoying thing in the book. I love the book "Shoeless Joe." And this book, also written by W.P Kinsella was totally different. Kinsella's writing style is very annoying in this novel. It is so repetitive to me, the

Baseball is a side story to this one as Kinsella tells tales of his youth in Six Towns, a collection of small communities. It is a tribute to loving and caring parents and to a youth fostered by that community. American soldiers, Truckbox Al McClintock, his first love who died of pneumonia are all part of the story.