Product Description
The winner of the 2008 Canada Reads debate is a sometimes funny, sometimes poignant story about an aging hockey star. But you don't need to be a hockey fan to enjoy it. Tracked down by a young advertising executive, King Leary is invited to Toronto to record a ginger ale commercial alongside the NHL's newest hockey sensation. Leary travels to the big city with his roommate and a slightly off-kilter male nurse, but he's also accompanied by his ghosts: Clay Clinton, his one-time best friend and former hockey manager; Manny Oz, Leary's challenger for the crown; and the hockey-playing monks of Bowmanville Reformatory, where Leary's career began. In this fast-paced, often quirky novel, read by Michael Hogan and produced by Heather Brown of CBC Vancouver, Quarrington manages a magical balance between comedy and pathos.
About the Author
Paul Quarrington is a novelist, playwright, award-winning screenwriter, acclaimed non-fiction writter, filmmaker, and musician. His novels include Galveston, nominated for the Giller prize (and published in the US as Storm Chasers), Whale Music, winner of the Governor General's Award for Fiction, and, most recently, The Ravine.
