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BOY ON ICE by John Branch

Submitted by arich on Thu, 2015-12-10 21:29
Posted on December 10, 2015 in
BOY ON ICE by John Branch
BOY ON ICE appears in the NYT Paperback Row on Dec. 6, 2015. “A Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist outlines the impact of hockey’s brutality on Boogaard, one of the game’s pre-eminent enforcers. Spanning Boogaard’s Saskatchewan childhood through his professional success and death at 28, the book is particularly “heartbreaking because it shows us, in tender detail, a life consumed by our unholy appetites,” Steve Almond wrote in a review of the book for the New York Times in October. Norton published the paperback edition on Oct. 13, 2015.....