{"product_id":"hockey-dreams-isbn-9780385690560","title":"Hockey Dreams","description":"\u003cb\u003eA timeless reflection on hockey, not only as a sport, but as a lens through which to view a nation from\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eaward-winning author David Adams Richards.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     With a voice as Canadian as winter, David Adams Richards reflects on the place of hockey in the Canadian soul.\u003cbr\u003e     The lyrical narrative of \u003ci\u003eHockey Dreams\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e     Part memoir, part essay on national identity, part hockey history, \u003ci\u003eHockey Dreams\u003c\/i\u003e is a meditation by one of Canada's finest writers on the essence of the game that helps define our nation.“Richards has used a novelist’s gift for character, dialogue and imagery to produce  a touching portrait of hockey-crazed kids.” —\u003ci\u003eMaclean’s\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “A lyrical and unapologetically  personal narrative about the place of the game in the Canadian psyche . . . [Richards]  has raised the standard of hockey literature.” —\u003ci\u003eVancouver Sun\u003c\/i\u003eDAVID ADAMS RICHARDS is one of Canada's pre-eminent writers. His recent novels include \u003ci\u003eMary Cyr\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePrinciples to Live By\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as \u003ci\u003eCrimes Against My Brother\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eIncidents in the Life of Markus Paul\u003c\/i\u003e, both of which were longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. Among his other novels, \u003ci\u003eThe Lost Highway\u003c\/i\u003e was shortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award and nominated for the Scotiabank Giller Prize; \u003ci\u003eThe Friends of Meagre Fortune\u003c\/i\u003e won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book; \u003ci\u003eMercy Among the Children\u003c\/i\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eLines on the Water\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGod Is\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFacing the Hunter\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eHockey Dreams\u003c\/i\u003e, and most recently the collection of essays \u003ci\u003eMurder\u003c\/i\u003e. In 2017, David Adams Richards was appointed to the Senate of Canada on the advice of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.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.","brand":"Anchor Canada","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303333187813,"sku":"NP9780385690560","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780385690560.jpg?v=1767729116","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/hockey-dreams-isbn-9780385690560","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}