Hockey Dreams: Penguin Modern Classics Edition

Hockey Dreams: Penguin Modern Classics Edition

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A timeless reflection on hockey, not only as a sport, but as a lens through which to view a nation from award-winning author David Adams Richards.     With a voice as Canadian as winter, David Adams Richards reflects on the place of hockey in the Canadian soul.     The lyrical narrative of Hockey Dreams flows from Richards’ boyhood games on the Miramichi to heated debates with university professors who dare to back the wrong team. It examines the globalization of hockey, and how Canadians react to the threat of foreigners beating us at “our” game.     Part memoir, part essay on national identity, part hockey history, Hockey Dreams is a meditation by one of Canada’s finest writers on the essence of the game that helps define our nation.

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Weight 0.18 kg
Dimensions 1.27 × 13.21 × 20.32 cm
PubliCanadanadation City/Country

Canada
Author(s)

Format
language1
Pages

224
Publisher

Year Published

2018-10-2
Imprint

ISBN 10

0385690568
About The Author

DAVID ADAMS RICHARDS is one of Canada's pre-eminent writers. His recent novels include Mary Cyr and Principles to Live By, as well as Crimes Against My Brother and Incidents in the Life of Markus Paul, both of which were longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. Among his other novels, The Lost Highway was shortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award and nominated for the Scotiabank Giller Prize; The Friends of Meagre Fortune won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book; Mercy Among the Children won the Scotiabank Giller Prize and was shortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award and the Trillium Award. Richards is also the author of the celebrated Miramichi Triology and has written four bestselling books of nonfiction, Lines on the Water, God Is, Facing the Hunter and Hockey Dreams, and most recently the collection of essays Murder. In 2017, David Adams Richards was appointed to the Senate of Canada on the advice of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

“Richards has used a novelist’s gift for character, dialogue and imagery to produce a touching portrait of hockey-crazed kids.” —Maclean’s “A lyrical and unapologetically personal narrative about the place of the game in the Canadian psyche . . . [Richards] has raised the standard of hockey literature.” —Vancouver Sun
Excerpt From Book

If you think that you are a Canadian, then my boy I will show you I am a Canadian too—if they check me from behind I will get up, if they kick and slash I will get up. If we play three against five for fifteen minutes I will get up. I too am a Canadian. They will not take this away from me. Nor, can I see, will they ever take it away from you. At the moment they think we are defeated we will have just begun. I will prove forever my years on the river, on the back rinks, on the buses, on the farm teams. I will prove forever that this is what has shaped me.

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