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Awards
Overview"INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER . Shortlisted for the 2024 Speaker's Book Award From bestselling author Ken Dryden, a riveting new book. INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER . Shortlisted for the 2024 Speaker's Book Award From bestselling author Ken Dryden, a riveting new book. On 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."" They 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. Their 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. When almost anything seems within reach, what do we reach for? Ken Dryden was one of these thirty-five. In his varied, improbable life, he had wondered often how he had gotten from there to here. 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. This is the story of a place, a time, and so much more." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Ken DrydenPublisher: McClelland & Stewart Inc. Imprint: McClelland & Stewart Inc. Dimensions: Width: 16.00cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 23.60cm Weight: 0.663kg ISBN: 9780771009235ISBN 10: 0771009232 Pages: 488 Publication Date: 17 October 2023 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsReviewsINSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER Author InformationKEN 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 has been inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame and the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame. He is a former federal member of parliament and cabinet minister, and is the author of multiple books, including The Game, Home Game (with Roy MacGregor), Game Change, and most recently, The Series. He and his wife, Lynda, live in Toronto and have two children and four grandchildren. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |