Hockey on the Moon : Imagination and Canada’s Game

Table of Contents

• Cover 1
• Half Title 2
• Title Page 4
• Copyright 5
• Contents 6
• Acknowledgements 8
• Introduction 12
• 1. Stompin’ Tom Versus Big Al: Two Imaginative Versions of the Game 22
• 2. The Fighting Soul of Hockey in Ralph Connor’s Glengarry School Days 42
• 3. Hugh MacLennan and the Two Solitudes of Hockey 58
• 4. Boys on the Defensive: The Hockey Myth in Scott Young 74
• 5. Belief and Doubt in Roch Carrier’s “The Hockey Sweater" 98
• 6. Haunted by Bill Spunska: Roy MacGregor’s The Last Season 126
• 7. Blarney’s Version: The Comic Spirit of Hockey in Paul Quarrington’s King Leary 148
• 8. Hockey as a Gateway to the Underworld in Wayne Johnston’s The Divine Ryans 176
• 9. Playing with the Hero in Richard Harrison’s Hero of the Play 202
• 10. Hockey, Zen, and the Art of Bill Gaston’s The Good Body 222
• 11. Cara Hedley’s Twenty Miles and the Challenge of the Hockey Barbie 240
• 12. The Faustian Bargain of the Athlete-Hero in Randall Maggs’s Night Work: The Sawchuk Poems 260
• 13. Richard Wagamese’s Indian Horse: Reimagining the Home Game 284
• Conclusion: Return to the Moon 308
• Publication Credits 314
• Index 316
• A 316
• B 316
• C 317
• D 318
• E 319
• F 319
• G 320
• H 320
• I 322
• J 322
• K 322
• L 323
• M 323
• N 325
• O 326
• P 326
• Q 327
• R 327
• S 328
• T 329
• V 330
• W 330
• Y 331
• Z 331