Boy on Ice: The Life and Death of Derek Boogaard - Hardcover

9780393239393: Boy on Ice: The Life and Death of Derek Boogaard
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Devastating Expos[es] the violent tradition that pushed this young man to the brink. --Kate Tuttle"
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The tragic death of hockey star Derek Boogaard at twenty-eight was front-page news across the country in 2011 and helped shatter the silence about violence and concussions in professional sports. Now, in a gripping work of narrative nonfiction, acclaimed reporter John Branch tells the shocking story of Boogaard's life and heartbreaking death. Boy on Ice is the richly told story of a mountain of a man who made it to the absolute pinnacle of his sport. Widely regarded as the toughest man in the NHL, Boogaard was a gentle man off the ice but a merciless fighter on it. With great narrative drive, Branch recounts Boogaard's unlikely journey from lumbering kid playing pond-hockey on the prairies of Saskatchewan, so big his skates would routinely break beneath his feet; to his teenaged junior hockey days, when one brutal outburst of violence brought Boogaard to the attention of professional scouts; to his days and nights as a star enforcer with the Minnesota Wild and the storied New York Rangers, capable of delivering career-ending punches and intimidating entire teams. But, as Branch reveals, behind the scenes Boogaard's injuries and concussions were mounting and his mental state was deteriorating, culminating in his early death from an overdose of alcohol and painkillers. Based on months of investigation and hundreds of interviews with Boogaard's family, friends, teammates, and coaches, Boy on Ice is a brilliant work for fans of Michael Lewis's The Blind Side or Buzz Bissinger's Friday Night Lights. This is a book that raises deep and disturbing questions about the systemic brutality of contact sports from peewees to professionals and the damage that reaches far beyond the game."

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  • VerlagW W Norton & Co Inc
  • Erscheinungsdatum2014
  • ISBN 10 039323939X
  • ISBN 13 9780393239393
  • EinbandTapa dura
  • Anzahl der Seiten371
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Buchbeschreibung Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: fine. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. First edition (which is also the first Canadian ediiton). Hardcover. 371 pp. with indx. Pulitzer prize winning author John Branch offers this biographical story of hockey star Derek Boogaard. Boogaard grew up as a lumbering kid in Saskatchewan playing pond hockey. He was so big that his skates routinely broke beneath his feet. During his teenaged junior hockey days, one brutal outburst of violence brought him to the attention of professional scouts and he came to be regarded as the toughest man inthe NHL during his days as an enforcer with the Minnesota Wild and New York Rangers. But his injuries and conconcussions mounted and his mental state deteriorated. Boogaard dies at age 28 from a overdose of painkillers and alcohol. Artikel-Nr. E26281

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