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Puckstruck: distracted, delighted, and distressed by Canada's hockey obsession

By Stephen , Smith

Book information

Publisher
Greystone Books
Year
2014
ISBN
9781771640480, 9781771640916, 1771640480, 177164091X
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (2278321 bytes)
Pages
432 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
Hockey;Hockey--Canada--History;History;Hockey -- C

Description

Smith chronicles his wide-eyed and sometimes wincing wander through hockey's literature, language, and culture, weighing its excitement and unbridled joy against its costs and vexing brutality. In exploring his own lifelong love of the game, hoping to surprise some sense out of it, he sifts hockey's narratives in search of hockey's heart, what it means and why it should distress us even as we celebrate its glories. On a journey to discover what the game might have to say about who we are as Canadians, he seeks to answer some of its essential riddles.;Preamble -- First -- Second -- Third -- Endnotes.

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