Puckstruck
Subtitle: distracted, delighted, and distressed by Canada's hockey obsession
By: Stephen Smith
Publisher: Greystone Books
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Vancouver
Language: eng
Number of pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9781771640480; 9781771640916
Subjects: Hockey; History
Description: Smith chronicles his wide-eyed and sometimes wincing wander through hockey's literature, language, and culture, weighing its excitement and unbridled joy against its costs and vexing brutality. In exploring his own lifelong love of the game, hoping to surprise some sense out of it, he sifts hockey's narratives in search of hockey's heart, what it means and why it should distress us even as we celebrate its glories. On a journey to discover what the game might have to say about who we are as Canadians, he seeks to answer some of its essential riddles.
Notes: Includes index.

Text in English.
Table of contents: title: Preamble; title: First; title: Second; title: Third; title: Endnotes.