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Dryden, Ken

 
9780771009235: The Class: A Memoir of a Place, a Time, and Us
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ISBN 10 : 0771009232 ISBN 13 : 9780771009235
Editeur : McClelland & Stewart, 2023

Synopsis

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.

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À propos de l'auteur

KEN 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.

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Éditeur
McClelland & Stewart
Date d'édition
2023
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0771009232
ISBN 13 
9780771009235
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
488
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
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