The Class
A Memoir of a Place, a Time, and Us
$44.35
- Paperback
488 pages
- Release Date
29 October 2024
Summary
A national bestseller, The Class is a riveting and personal book from Ken Dryden.
On Tuesday, September 6, 1960, the day after Labour Day, class 9G at Etobicoke Collegiate Institute in a suburb of Toronto assembled for the first time. Its thirty-five students, having written special exams, came to be known as the “Selected Class.”
They would stay together through high school, with few exceptions. They would spend more than two hundred days a year together. Few had known each o…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780771009259 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0771009259 |
| Author: | Ken Dryden |
| Publisher: | McClelland & Stewart Inc. |
| Imprint: | McClelland & Stewart Inc. |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 488 |
| Release Date: | 29 October 2024 |
| Weight: | 537g |
| Dimensions: | 228mm x 152mm |
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Critics Review
INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Shortlisted for the 2024 Speaker’s Book Award
“Contemplative, thoughtful and revealing.”
—Winnipeg Free Press
“Vivid [and] punchy… . Brief as these sketches were, these people lived for me.”
—Literary Review of Canada
“The Class is more than just a ‘where are they now?’ book of fond memories and reminiscences. Ken Dryden writes with a great deal of intelligence, introspection, and humanity to discover how a core group of high school students from an elite education program made the human journey from there to here during an exciting, turbulent time in modern Canadian history.”
—Montreal Times
About The Author
Ken Dryden
Ken Dryden was a goalie for the Montreal Canadiens in the 1970s, during which time the team won six Stanley Cups. He also played for Team Canada in the 1972 Summit Series. He was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame and the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame. He was a former federal member of parliament and cabinet minister, and was the author of multiple books, including The Game, Home Game (with Roy MacGregor), Game Change, and The Class.
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