King Leary
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.85 (970 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0385666012 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-03-08 |
| Language | : | English |
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"As the old mother would have it, I would not put a thief in my mouth to steal my brains." Julee Rudolf Elderly former hockey star Percival Leary, born in one-nine-zero-zero, is contacted at his residence, the South Grouse Nursing Home, one day by a representative of "Canada's best-selling ginger ale beverage" and asked to travel to Toronto to do a commercial for the product. He agrees, taking a nurse and his roommate, Blue Hermann, former newspaper report. Judith Keenan said Quarrington and Dave Bidini Discuss "King Leary" on video. [[VIDEOID:"Quarrington and Dave Bidini Discuss "King Leary" on video" according to Judith Keenan. [[VIDEOID:20Quarrington and Dave Bidini Discuss "King Leary" on video Judith Keenan [[VIDEOID:20450151]][] -- Congratulations to our friend and colleague Paul Quarrington, and kudos to champion Dave Bidini, in today's KING LEARY'S win on CANADA READS! There is so much great coverage of all the books (isn't soooo Canadian to be soooo even handed in awards stuff - LOL!!) that we just want to add our little piece, directly from the boys th. 50151]][] -- Congratulations to our friend and colleague Paul Quarrington, and kudos to champion Dave Bidini, in today's KING LEARY'S win on CANADA READS! There is so much great coverage of all the books (isn't soooo Canadian to be soooo even handed in awards stuff - LOL!!) that we just want to add our little piece, directly from the boys th. 0Quarrington and Dave Bidini Discuss "King Leary" on video Judith Keenan [[VIDEOID:20450151]][] -- Congratulations to our friend and colleague Paul Quarrington, and kudos to champion Dave Bidini, in today's KING LEARY'S win on CANADA READS! There is so much great coverage of all the books (isn't soooo Canadian to be soooo even handed in awards stuff - LOL!!) that we just want to add our little piece, directly from the boys th. 50151]][] -- Congratulations to our friend and colleague Paul Quarrington, and kudos to champion Dave Bidini, in today's KING LEARY'S win on CANADA READS! There is so much great coverage of all the books (isn't soooo Canadian to be soooo even handed in awards stuff - LOL!!) that we just want to add our little piece, directly from the boys th. One of the funniest books you will ever read King Leary is an old man now, but in his heydey he was the king of the ice, leaving opponents clutching at air as he executed the famous St Louis Whirligig. He is tracked down by an androgyous advertising company hack to promote a brand of ginger ale, and together they commence a laughter-inducing trip to the big city to make ads.This book will have you
His success in this entertaining fourth novel is not only creating a memorable character in Canadiens' hockey champion Patrick Leary, "King of the Ice" for most of the first half of the 20th century, but also surrounding him with equally memorable companions. . In an odyssey that takes the King from past to present, and from Bywater to Toronto to make a ginger ale "advert," the ghosts and half-truths of Leary's life are satisfyingly resolved. There's Clay Clinton, a likable though Machiavellian con artist-cum-hockey manager, and Leary's best friend; gormless Clifford, King's obese, amiable son, who seems to have inherited some of his father's inability to see reality; Manny Oz, King's challenger for the crown who died ignominiously and alone in a hotel room; Blue Hermann, King's roommate in the nursing home, ace reporter and alcoholic; and the hockey-playing monks of Bowmanville Reformatory, where Leary's career begins. Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Publishers
With his male nurse, his son, and the irrepressible Blue, Leary sets off for Toronto on one last adventure as he revisits the scenes of his glorious life as King of the Ice.. Now, in the South Grouse Nursing Home, where he shares a room with Edmund "Blue" Hermann, the antagonistic and alcoholic reporter who once chronicled his career, Leary looks back on his tumultuous life and times: his days at the boys' reformatory when he burned down a house; the four mad monks who first taught him to play hockey; and the time he executed the perfect "St. Selected as the 2008 CBC Canada Reads Winner!"A dazzling display of fictional footwork… The author has not written just another hockey novel; he has turned hockey in a