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More copies of this ISBNThis title in other editionsIce Time: A Tale of Fathers, Sons, and Hometown Heroesby Jay Atkinson
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:As kids, we all had passions — something we loved doing, experienced with our friends, dreamed about every spare moment. For Jay Atkinson, who grew up in a small Massachusetts town, it was hockey. When Bobby Orr scored the winning goal in the 1970 Stanley Cup Finals against the St. Louis Blues, Atkinson became a fan for life. In 1975, he played on the first Methuen Rangers varsity hockey team. Once and always a rink rat, Atkinson still plays hockey whenever and wherever he can. Twenty-five years after he played for the Rangers, Atkinson returns to his high school team as a volunteer assistant. Ice Time tells the team's story as he follows the temperamental star, the fiery but troubled winger, the lovesick goalie, the rookie whose father is battling cancer, and the "old school" coach as the Rangers make a desperate charge into the state tournament. In emotionally vivid detail, Ice Time travels into the rinks, schools, and living rooms of small-town America, where friendships are forged, the rewards of loyalty and perseverance are earned, and boys and girls are transformed into young men and women. Along the way, we also meet his five-year-old son, Liam, who is just now learning the game his father loves. Whether describing kids playing a moonlit game on a frozen swamp or the crucible of team tryouts and predawn bus rides that he endured himself, Atkinson carves out the drama of adolescence with precision and affection. He takes us onto the ice and into the heart of a town and a team as he explores the profound connection between fathers and sons, and what it means to go home again. From the Hardcover edition. Review:"The more I read of Ice Time, the more I was hooked. Far more than just a chronicle of a high school hockey season, Jay Atkinson's book is an evocative, bittersweet, poetic journey of a grown man trying, as we all try, not to recapture youth but to remember the splendor of it." H. G. Bissinger, author of Friday Night Lights Review:"Atkinson...writes with a fiction writer's sensibility. The Methuen players and coaches emerge as real people, and Atkinson looks beneath the surface to probe their emotions and the human drama in which they participate over the season. A warm, insightful memoir..." Booklist Review:"Atkinson vividly illustrates the mental and emotional impact the sport has on its players and offers lucid descriptions of game action. The themes of the book may seem quaint hard work, dedication, fairness, faith, camaraderie but that does not in any way lessen its impact." Publishers Weekly Review:"This is an observant, evocative book for all readers who remember the days of playing shinny on a frozen pond from sunup to....[A]n emotionally charged, heart-warming tale of personal triumphs, both on and off the ice, of friendship, loyalty, perseverance, and dedicated parents." Library Journal Review:"Atkinson has evocative power, whether it be in describing the olfactory insult of a hockey locker room, the ebullience that attends a sharply played game, the sound of skates, cutting over ice, echoing off a far hillside...or detailing the tribulations of high-school life....An artful class portrait of a town seen through the lens of a game." Kirkus Reviews Synopsis:A Publishers Weekly Notable Book of the year and a New England bestseller, and now with a new epilogue, Ice Time is a luminous and affecting memoir. With emotionally vivid detail, Jay Atkinson weaves together the chronicle of a high school hockey team and the portrait of a New England town. Ice Time takes us into the rinks, schools, and living rooms of small-town America, where friendships are forged and boys and girls are transformed into young men and women. This moving tale explores the connection between fathers and sons and what it means to go home again. Synopsis:Jay Atkinson is the author of the critically acclaimed novel Caveman Politics. His work has appeared in the Boston Globe and Boston Herald and has been syndicated by the New York Times. He teaches writing at Salem State College and lives in Methuen, Massachusetts. From the Hardcover edition. About the AuthorJay Atkinson is the author of the critically acclaimed novel Caveman Politics. His work has appeared in the Boston Globe and Boston Herald and has been syndicated by the New York Times. He teaches writing at Salem State College and lives in Methuen, Massachusetts. What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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