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Hockey Dreams:Penguin Modern Classics Edition
[Paperback - 2018]
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Additional Category: Sports - Others - Memoirs
Publisher: Anchor Canada | ISBN: 9780385690560 | Pages: 224
Shipping Weight: .172 | Dimensions: 5.2 x .5 x 8 inches

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.

David Adams Richards (born 17 October 1950) is a Canadian novelist, essayist, screenwriter and poet.Born in Newcastle, New Brunswick, Richards left St. Thomas University in Fredericton, New Brunswick, one course shy of completing a B.A. Richards has been a writer-in-residence at various universities and colleges across Canada, including the University of New Brunswick.Richards has received numerous awards including 2 Gemini Awards for scriptwriting for Small Gifts and "For Those Who Hunt The Wounded Down", the Alden Nowlan Award for Excellence in the Arts, and the Canadian Authors Association Award for his novel Evening Snow Will Bring Such Peace. Richards is one of only three writers to have won in both the fiction and non-fiction categories of the Governor General's Award. He won the 1988 fiction award for Nights Below Station Street and the 1998 non-fiction award for Lines on the Water: A Fisherman's Life on the Miramichi. He was also a co-winner of the 2000 Giller Prize for Mercy Among the Children.In 1971, he married the former Peggy MacIntyre. They have two sons, John Thomas and Anton Richards, and currently reside in Toronto.John Thomas was born in 1989 in Saint John, New Brunswick.The Writers' Federation of New Brunswick administers an annual David Adams Richards Award for Fiction.Richards' papers are currently housed at the University of New Brunswick.

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