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Title: |
The Five Hole Stories |
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| By (author): |
Dave Bidini |
| ISBN10-13: |
1897142188 : 9781897142189 |
| Illustrations: |
b/w illus |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| Size: |
196x133x12mm |
| Pages: |
128 |
| Weight: |
.278 Kg. |
| Published: |
Brindle & Glass (CA) - October 2006 |
| List Price: |
20.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: |
In Stock
Qty Available: 9 |
| Subjects: |
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) : Short stories : Sports & outdoor recreation : Hockey |
| Each of the six stories in Dave Bidini's playful, irreverent new book takes a headlong run at the hockey dressing room, and knocks the door down. In one story, a chronic minor-leaguer discovers the wonders--and the pitfalls--of the game in Europe, both on and off the ice. In another, an NHLer is tight with his teammate, the league's leading goalscorer, but dreams of getting MUCH tighter. A star on a losing streak turns to a magical salve to turn his game around. A conversation between two friends yields surprising facts about Joan, everyone's favourite female goalie. A hundred bucks is all that stands between a hockey groupie and eternal happiness in 1950s Detroit. And finally, the eponymous 'Five Hole' itself speaks--though it never reveals all of its secrets.Full of sex, drugs and high-sticking, each of The Five Hole Stories runs its proverbial tongue down hockey's seamy, steamy underbelly and then finds language to tell us what it tastes like. A scintillating look at hockey with its clothes off, in six ambitious poses. |
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