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King Leary by Paul Quarrington (2007, Trade Paperback)
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King Leary by Paul Quarrington. Author Paul Quarrington. Percival Leary was once the King of the Ice, one of hockey's greatest heroes. Title King Leary. Format Paperback. Sports & Outdoors.
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Product Identifiers
PublisherDoubleday Canada
ISBN-100385666012
ISBN-139780385666015
eBay Product ID (ePID)99571406
Product Key Features
Book TitleKing Leary
Number of Pages240 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2007
TopicBiographical, Sports, Humorous / General
GenreFiction
AuthorPaul Quarrington
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight7.6 Oz
Item Length8.4 in
Item Width5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
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 Edition19
Dewey Decimal813/.54
SynopsisSelected 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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