{"product_id":"the-class-isbn-9780771009259","title":"The Class","description":"\u003cb\u003eA national bestseller, \u003ci\u003eThe Class\u003c\/i\u003e is a riveting and personal book from Ken Dryden.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn Tuesday, September 6, 1960, the day after Labour Day, class 9G at Etobicoke Collegiate Institute in a suburb of Toronto assembled for the first time. Its thirty-five students, having written special exams, came to be known as the “Selected Class.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThey would stay together through high school, with few exceptions. They would spend more than two hundred days a year together. Few had known each other before. Few have been in other than accidental contact in all the decades since.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTheir ancestors were almost all from working-class backgrounds. Their parents had lived their formative years through depression and war. They themselves were born into a postwar world of new homes, new schools, new churches. New suburbs. Of new classes like this one. Of boundless possibilities.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen almost anything seems within reach, what do we reach for?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKen Dryden was one of these thirty-five. In his varied, improbable life, he had wondered often how he had gotten from \u003ci\u003ethere\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003ehere\u003c\/i\u003e. How any of us do. He decided to try and find his classmates, to see how they are, what they are doing, how life has been for them. They talked many long hours, in a way they had never talked before. Most had married, some divorced, most have kids, many have grandkids.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is the story of a place, a time, and so much more.\u003cb\u003eINSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Shortlisted for the 2024 Speaker’s Book Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Contemplative, thoughtful and revealing.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eWinnipeg Free Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“Vivid [and] punchy. . . . Brief as these sketches were, these people lived for me.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eLiterary Review of Canada\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Class\u003c\/i\u003e is more than just a ‘where are they now?’ book of fond memories and reminiscences. Ken Dryden writes with a great deal of intelligence, introspection, and humanity to discover how a core group of high school students from an elite education program made the human journey from there to here during an exciting, turbulent time in modern Canadian history.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eMontreal Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eKEN DRYDEN was a goalie for the Montreal Canadiens in the 1970s, during which time the team won six Stanley Cups. He also played for Team Canada in the 1972 Summit Series. He was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame and the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame. He was a former federal member of parliament and cabinet minister, and was the author of multiple books, including \u003ci\u003eThe Game\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHome Game\u003c\/i\u003e (with Roy MacGregor), \u003ci\u003eGame Change, \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e The Class\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"McClelland \u0026 Stewart","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302531682533,"sku":"NP9780771009259","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780771009259.jpg?v=1767738708","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-class-isbn-9780771009259","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}