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table of contents
Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1. Stompin’ Tom Versus Big Al: Two Imaginative Versions of the Game
- 2. The Fighting Soul of Hockey in Ralph Connor’s Glengarry School Days
- 3. Hugh MacLennan and the Two Solitudes of Hockey
- 4. Boys on the Defensive: The Hockey Myth in Scott Young
- 5. Belief and Doubt in Roch Carrier’s “The Hockey Sweater”
- 6. Haunted by Bill Spunska: Roy MacGregor’s The Last Season
- 7. Blarney’s Version: The Comic Spirit of Hockey in Paul Quarrington’s King Leary
- 8. Hockey as a Gateway to the Underworld in Wayne Johnston’s The Divine Ryans
- 9. Playing with the Hero in Richard Harrison’s Hero of the Play
- 10. Hockey, Zen, and the Art of Bill Gaston’s The Good Body
- 11. Cara Hedley’s Twenty Miles and the Challenge of the Hockey Barbie
- 12. The Faustian Bargain of the Athlete-Hero in Randall Maggs’s Night Work: The Sawchuk Poems
- 13. Richard Wagamese’s Indian Horse: Reimagining the Home Game
- Conclusion: Return to the Moon
- Publication Credits
- Index