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Hockey is more than a game.
It`s more than a way of life. In Canada, it`s a portrait of who we are. It`s a window into our very soul.
In The Meaning of Puck, best-selling author Bruce Dowbiggin takes a peek into that window and--frankly--it`s not always such a pretty picture. Viewed through the prism of hockey, Canada is--Dowbiggin argues--a land of compelling and surprising...even ugly and embarassing contradictions.
In a series of essays that is a road trip across the nation`s cultural landscape, he shows how the national passion of hockey reflects--or deflects--the issues of globalization, regionalism, anti-Americanism, militarism, violence, racism and greed.
Why are Canadians, for instance, such strenuous advocates of pacifism and non-militarism around the world while simultaneously embracing--and promoting--the world`s most vicious and violent brand of hockey? As the legion of apologists for Todd Bertuzzi`s thuggish play dramatize, it`
