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By Peter LaSalle. 1998
Short stories and poems centering around the sport of ice hockey. In "Le Rocket Negre," a Quebec teenager is recruited…
from an orphanage based on his apparent racial identity. In "Wellesley College for Women, 1969," a former hockey player on scholarship to Harvard reminisces about two former girlfriendsBy Itah Sadu, Marley Berot. 2023
In the middle of the ice, a young Black hockey player finds joy in his talent and confidence in the…
cheers of his family, his coach, and the other players. Their support gives him the power to face down those who see him as a threat and to focus on the thrill of the game. For grades 1-4.By Ray Robertson. 2014
Peter Bayle—heavy drinker, philosopher, scholar, anemic lover—is in Kansas, writing a feature on middle America's newfound love for hockey. There…
he meets a morphine-injecting reverend, a reviled reporter, and a drug salesman; obsessed by his self-destructive new friends, Bayle abandons the project and returns home to confront a future and a girlfriend he may no longer want.By Richard Curtis. 1975
Athletic agent Dave Bolt, former star for the Dallas Cowboys, is a hardened sports insider, familiar with the dirty underside…
of American professional sports. He witnesses the kickbacks, the bribes and the blackmail that keep the high-powered industry spinning. In DEATH IN THE CREASE Bolt has to deal with is an explosive ice hockey scandal that threatens to expose the sport's biggest game as a sham. Former Black Hawk goalie Guy LeClede writes an expose of the corruption that "would blow hockey off the ice" if published. But before the book is seen by anyone else, LeClede suddenly drives his car off a cliff and the manuscript disappears. NHL brass have asked Bolt: to investigate the possibility of murder and unravel the intricacies of one of the priciest gambling deals of the decade.By Lorna Jackson. 2007
Cold-cocked is the first book to explore a woman's way of watching the game poet Al Purdy called a "combination…
of ballet and murder." Written by author and born-again hockey aficionado Lorna Jackson, Cold-cocked looks at hockey through a woman's eyes and heart but is written with a sportswriter's energy and rigor and a hip cultural critic's cynicism and wit.