SOURCE: J. K. Review of Red Wolf, Red Wolf, by W. P. Kinsella. West Coast Review of Books 16 (January 1991): 21.

In the following review, the critic praises Kinsella's storytelling abilities and provides several plot synopses of the stories in Red Wolf, Red Wolf.

If you've never had the pleasure of reading anything by W. P. Kinsella, don't blow your chance now. A bona-fide baseball nut, Kinsella uses not only his love for the Great American Pastime but his love of America, its history and folklore, in establishing himself as Bard First Class. Red Wolf, Red Wolf, a unique collection of short stories, does nothing to threaten this well-earned title.

Kinsella uses the book's foreword to acknowledge a debt to Baba Drobney, his Yugoslavian grandmother, from whom he inherited his love of storytelling. His own specialty entails adapting the lives of real people out of history for use in his...