Description: Puckstruck : Distracted, Delighted and Distressed by Canada's Hockey Obsession, Hardcover by Smith, Stephen, ISBN 1771640480, ISBN-13 9781771640480, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Like many a Canadian kid, Stephen Smith was up on skates first thing as a boy, out in the weather chasing a puck and the promise of an NHL career. Back indoors after that didnt quite work out, he turned to thshelf. Thats where, without entirely meaning to, he ended up reading all the hockey books. There was Crunch and Boom Boom, Slashing! and High Stick; there was Max Bentley: Hockeys Dipsy-Doodle Dandy, Blue Line Murder, and Nagano, a Czech hockey opera. There was Blood on the Ice, Cracked Ice, Fire On Ice, Power On Ice, Cowboy On Ice, and Steel On Ice. In Puckstruck, Smith chronicles his wide-eyed and sometimes wincing wander through hockeys 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 hockeys narratives in search of hockeys 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.
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Book Title: Puckstruck : Distracted, Delighted and Distressed by Canada's Hockey Obsession
Number of Pages: 440 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Greystone Books LTD.
Topic: Hockey, Canadian, Subjects & Themes / General
Publication Year: 2014
Item Height: 1 in
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Literary Criticism, Sports & Recreation
Item Weight: 27 Oz
Item Length: 9 in
Author: Stephen Smith
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Hardcover
