If Wishes Were Horses

If Wishes Were Horses
W. P. Kinsella

From the author of Shoeless Joe, the book that inspired the movie Field of Dreams.In the tradition of his bestselling Shoeless Joe, W.P. Kinsella has created another literary baseball classic. A warm tale of magic, humor and the power of a second chance, its hero is Joe McCoy, an unemployed newspaper writer who by some bizarre circumstances is now a fugitive from the FBI. There's only one thing left for Joe to do - go home to Iowa and tell his story to the only two men who just might believe it - Shoeless Joe's Ray Kinsella and The Iowa Baseball Confederacy's Gideon Clarke. This pair, Joe has heard, know a thing or two about inexplicable events.

If Wishes Were Horses

BY W. P. KINSELLA

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Source ISBN: 9780007497553

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Contents

Title Page (#u5a24f65f-7392-5fe2-b42f-34e4a77e6956)

Copyright

SECTION ONE: HEARTLAND

ONE: RAY KINSELLA

TWO: GIDEON CLARKE (#ud5650f68-aa8e-5b77-b4aa-9ae789beacbe)

THREE: RAY KINSELLA

FOUR: GIDEON CLARKE

FIVE: JOE McCOY

SIX: RAY KINSELLA

SEVEN: JOE McCOY

EIGHT: JOE McCOY

NINE: JOE McCOY

TEN: JOE McCOY

SECTION TWO: AT LARGE

ELEVEN: JOE McCOY

TWELVE: RAY KINSELLA

THIRTEEN: GIDEON CLARKE

FOURTEEN: JOE McCOY

FIFTEEN: JOE MCCOY

SIXTEEN: JOE McCOY

SEVENTEEN: JOE McCOY

EIGHTEEN: JOE McCOY

SECTION THREE: IF WISHES WERE HORSES

NINETEEN: JOE McCOY

TWENTY: GIDEON CLARKE

TWENTY-ONE: JOE McCOY

TWENTY-TWO: JOE McCOY

TWENTY-THREE: JOE McCOY

TWENTY-FOUR: JOE McCOY

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