- Montreal Canadiens (Hockey team), National Hockey League, Sports & Recreations, Goalkeeping
Widely acknowledged as the best hockey book ever written and lauded by Sports Illustrated as one of the Top 10 Sports Books of All Time, The Game is a reflective and thought-provoking look at a life in hockey.
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Earnest, contemplative, nostalgic and classical in form.
- earnestironic
- contemplativerelentless
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- warmbleak
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About the book
- Author
- Ken Dryden
- First published
- 1983
- Pages
- 248
- Publisher
- Macmillan Canada, Not Avail, Wiley
- Editions
- 25
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780470833551
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“This book was lived and researched over twenty-five years, thought about consciously on and off for at least the last five of those years, and finally written.”
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