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Canada's Game - Hockey and Identity (Paperback)
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Canada's Game - Hockey and Identity (Paperback)
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Contributors include Julian Ammirante (Laurentian University at
Georgian), Jason Blake (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia), Robert
Dennis (Queen's University), Jamie Dopp (University of Victoria),
Russell Field (University of Manitoba), Greg Gillespie (Brock
University), Richard Harrison (Mount Royal College), Craig Hyatt
(Brock University), Brian Kennedy (Pasadena City College), Karen
E.H. Skinazi (University of Alberta), and Julie Stevens (Brock
University).
From the book:
The Giller Prize-winning author, David Adams Richards, tells a
humorous anecdote from his days as a writer-in-residence at the
University of New Brunswick - Fredericton. It was in 1984, on the
day after Team Canada had defeated the hated Soviet national team 3
to 2 in overtime and, a committed hockey fan, he was dying to chat
with someone, anyone, about the great victory the night before. The
first person he encountered was a young English professor, a good
but perhaps pretentious scholar who had once been overheard saying
that she could not see how anyone could live without reading Henry
James. Despite her erudition, like Richards she was from small-town
New Brunswick, and because of this, he thought, she must be a
hockey fan. "Did you see the game last night?" No, she replied, "we
don't have a television ... don't approve of it," but continued on
saying that her husband had been eager to find out the result that
morning on the radio.
"He's heartbroken," she said. "We were going for the Russians."
Richards' face displayed his bewilderment at her treasonous
statement.
"Well we both hate Gretzky, you see." Her accent now turned
slightly British ..". he's just such a Canadian." She smiled. He
paused, uncomfortably, and then asked her:
"You hate greatness ... or just Canadian greatness?"
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