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

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	:	Anniversary 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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It's supposed to be the story of Truckbox Al McClintock and the year he almost got a try-out with the St. Louis Cardinals but it's really about the Norwegian and Ukrainian families who live in the Six Towns area (there are really seven but not all are towns) near Edmonton, Alberta.Truckbox Al and baseball feature prominently (it is, after all, a Kinsella book) but this is the story of Jamie O'Day, his first life memory and his family and friends.There are touching vignettes and memorable

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

Kinsella plays with a repetitious device that you either will hate or think is brilliant. I thought it was brilliant. It catches the feel of being told a tale by a young boy just right. A great tale of rural life and all the human quirks to be found when you know people as well as you do in a small town.

As far as I can remember this is the first W.P. Kinsella book I have read and it was a recommendation from my nephew. I very much enjoyed it, not only because it was set not far from where I was raised but because Kinsella is a good writer. I liked the repetition of certain phrases: "for slighting her, even snubbing her, which everyone knew was worse than slighting"; "Truckbox Al McClintock had been chosen to play for the unimaginatively named Alberta All-Stars, against a team of Major Leaguers,

I really tried to get past the repetitive style, the ridiulous system of names and the "more later" technique but there was little here to captivate my spirit. Almost as boring and repetitive as baseball!

Library cast off for $1. (Next thing you know it will be CDs on the out of date media shelves.) Once you get used to the fact that Kinsella calls everyone by their whole name and adds adjectives that multiply as the story continues, it becomes poetic and humorous, but all the folks are just too "quirky, rowdy, and hot-blooded for me.

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