WINTER RACEHORSE

by Childerhose, R.J

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Book desription: Peter Martin, (Toronto, 1968), Ist edition.. 430 pp, 8vo, hard cover in dust jacket. A fictionalized, but carefully researched novel about hockey in the N.H.L. "...packed with breathless ice-level hockey action. Readers can feel the gummy, August practice ice clogging their skates, hear the. roar of the crowd, see the open corner of the net as the goalie guesses wrong, smell the exhaustion of the dressing room after the game. But 'Winter Racehorse' is more than this. More than the story of a rookie super-star. More than an inside. r ' s look at hockey action. It's also an angry, impassioned attack on violence in hockey, on the bone-crunching, blood-spilling mayhem that owners and coaches think the fans enjoy but that true sportmen know can ruin a game. (This book) doesn't . pr ea ch . But the shocking message is there for readers to find in the midst of the action, the breathless excitement of hockey-played-for-keeps..." Previous owners bookplate on free front endpaper, slight wrinkle at bottom of spine. Dust jacket. is pr ice -clipped, has light edge wear, light rubbing. VG+/VG.

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