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King Leary Paperback Paul Quarrington

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Publication Name
Doubleday Canada
ISBN
9780385666015

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Doubleday Canada
ISBN-10
0385666012
ISBN-13
9780385666015
eBay Product ID (ePID)
99571406

Product Key Features

Book Title
King Leary
Number of Pages
240 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2007
Topic
Biographical, Sports, Humorous / General
Genre
Fiction
Author
Paul Quarrington
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
7.6 Oz
Item Length
8.4 in
Item Width
5.5 in

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Intended Audience
Trade
Reviews
"A type of literary hat trick...most engaging…. [Quarrington's] colourful, inventive language is addictive."The Globe and Mail "An extraordinary writer with a rare gift." Timothy Findley, "A type of literary hat trick...most engaging…. [Quarrington's] colourful, inventive language is addictive." The Globe and Mail "An extraordinary writer with a rare gift." Timothy Findley
Dewey Edition
19
Dewey Decimal
813/.54
Synopsis
Selected as the 2008 CBC Canada Reads Winner! "A dazzling display of fictional footwork. . . . The author has not written just another hockey novel; he has turned hockey in a metaphor for magic." Maclean's Percival Leary was once the King of the Ice, one of hockey's greatest heroes. Now, in the South Grouse Nursing Home, where he shares a room with Edmund "Blue" Hermann, the antagonistic and alcoholic reporter who once chronicled his career, Leary looks back on his tumultuous life and times: his days at the boys' reformatory when he burned down a house; the four mad monks who first taught him to play hockey; and the time he executed the perfect "St. Louis Whirlygig" to score the winning goal in the 1919 Stanley Cup final. Now all but forgotten, Leary is only a legend in his own mind until a high-powered advertising agency decides to feature him in a series of ginger ale commercials. With his male nurse, his son, and the irrepressible Blue, Leary sets off for Toronto on one last adventure as he revisits the scenes of his glorious life as King of the Ice., Selected as the 2008 CBC Canada Reads Winner "A dazzling display of fictional footwork... The author has not written just another hockey novel; he has turned hockey in a metaphor for magic." Maclean's Percival Leary was once the King of the Ice, one of hockey's greatest heroes. Now, in the South Grouse Nursing Home, where he shares a room with Edmund "Blue" Hermann, the antagonistic and alcoholic reporter who once chronicled his career, Leary looks back on his tumultuous life and times: his days at the boys' reformatory when he burned down a house; the four mad monks who first taught him to play hockey; and the time he executed the perfect "St. Louis Whirlygig" to score the winning goal in the 1919 Stanley Cup final. Now all but forgotten, Leary is only a legend in his own mind until a high-powered advertising agency decides to feature him in a series of ginger ale commercials. With his male nurse, his son, and the irrepressible Blue, Leary sets off for Toronto on one last adventure as he revisits the scenes of his glorious life as King of the Ice.

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