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A review by gracer
Butterfly Winter by W.P. Kinsella
3.0
I was really looking forward to this book - what a great idea, to take the whimsy and magic of "Shoeless Joe" or "The Iowa Baseball Confederacy" and plop it down on the island of Hispaniola, in a fictional country that is not the Dominican Republic, but similar in some ways.
It is the perfect setting for a baseball story told through magical realism. The book fit the bill in that respect, inviting readers to suspend disbelief and become consumed in the world of the story.
That said, baseball was far less at the forefront of this story as the other Kinsella books I have read. As a result it felt like less of an escape for me - that, coupled with the tyrannical president of Courteguay and the horrible things he did made this less relaxing for me. Furthermore, I wasn't wild about the presentation of women in this one. So I'm giving this one a mixed review, and a mixed rating - but if you're into Kinsella's other works, there's no real reason to skip this one.
It is the perfect setting for a baseball story told through magical realism. The book fit the bill in that respect, inviting readers to suspend disbelief and become consumed in the world of the story.
That said, baseball was far less at the forefront of this story as the other Kinsella books I have read. As a result it felt like less of an escape for me - that, coupled with the tyrannical president of Courteguay and the horrible things he did made this less relaxing for me. Furthermore, I wasn't wild about the presentation of women in this one. So I'm giving this one a mixed review, and a mixed rating - but if you're into Kinsella's other works, there's no real reason to skip this one.