The Game
by Ken Dryden
List Price:
Our Price: $14.57
You Save: $8.38 (37%)
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Buy Used: from $14.50 (click here)
Category: Book
See more book details and other editions
Book Summary Information
Author: Ken DrydenEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Format: Deluxe Edition
Published: 2005-01-24
ISBN: 0470835842
Number of pages: 312
Publisher: Wiley
Book Reviews of The Game
Book Review: A deeply intelligent meditation on Hockey and Life
Summary: 5 Stars
This is no ordinary sports autobiography. Dryden does not sing his own praises and tell us how he became the greatest goalie of his generation. Instead this is a deeply meditative book in which he shares with the reader his own questions as to the character and meaning of his own career in hockey. He provides in the course of this an inside look at the game, and long interesting descriptions of the people he has known in it, most notably his teammates.
The book does not really tell a consecutive story. It also leaves out certain things the reader might want to know. I for instance would have liked to have heard more about Dryden's family, his wife and parents, their relation to his success and career. But he pretty much keeps them out of it and focuses on the game.
His own relation to himself and his success , is I believe , quite admirable. He describes in detail the pleasures and the pains of goalkeeping. He describes too the part this position has in the whole game. I imagine a real hockey fan ( I am not) would be tremendously interested in the inside look he gives at the way players actually think about themselves and what they are doing.
Dryden is both tremendously intelligent and articulate- a truly outstanding writer.
Many have said this is one of the best sports books ever written. It is certainly one of the best I have read.
Biographies Books
Book Subjects
- Arts & Photography
- Biographies & Memoirs
- Business & Investing
- Children's Books
- Comics & Graphic Novels
- Computers & Internet
- Cooking, Food & Wine
- Entertainment
- Gay & Lesbian
- Health, Mind & Body
- History
- Home & Garden
- Horror
- Law
- Literature & Fiction
- Mystery & Thrillers
- Nonfiction
- Outdoors & Nature
- Parenting & Families
- Professional & Technical
- Reference
- Religion & Spirituality
- Romance
- Science
- Science Fiction & Fantasy
- Sports
- Teens
- Travel
Most talked about in Biographies Books
Caddy for Life: The Bruce Edwards Storyby John Feinstein
Back Bay Books; Published: 2005-05-09; Paperback; Book
Best price: $3.50
Price in other shops:
Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillmanby Jon Krakauer
Anchor; Published: 2010-07-27; Paperback; Book
Best price: $5.69
Price in other shops:
The Glory of Their Times: The Story of the Early Days of Baseball Told by the Men Who Played It (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)by Lawrence S. Ritter
Harper Perennial Modern Classics; Published: 2010-04-06; Paperback; Book
Best price: $8.20
Price in other shops:
A-Rod: The Many Lives of Alex Rodriguezby Selena Roberts
Harper Perennial; Published: 2010-02-23; Paperback; Book
Best price: $1.40
Price in other shops:
The Girls of Summer: The U.S. Women's Soccer Team and How It Changed the Worldby Jere Longman
Harper Perennial; Published: 2001-04-10; Paperback; Book
Best price: $3.75
Price in other shops:
Go For the Goal: A Champion's Guide To Winning In Soccer And Lifeby Mia Hamm, Aaron Heifetz
It Books; Published: 2000-07-25; Paperback; Book
Best price: $4.98
Price in other shops:
This Voice in My Heart: A Runner's Memoir of Genocide, Faith, and Forgivenessby Gilbert Tuhabonye, Gary Brozek
Amistad; Published: 2007-05-22; Paperback; Book
Best price: $5.85
Price in other shops:
Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant 'Roids, Smash Hits, and How Baseball Got Bigby Jose Canseco
It Books; Published: 2006-02-28; Paperback; Book
Best price: $6.50
Price in other shops:
The Last Seasonby Eric Blehm
Harper; Published: 2006-04-04; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $12.97
Price in other shops:
Hawk : Occupation Skateboarderby Tony; Mortimer, Sean Hawk
Regan Books; Published: 2000; Hardcover; Book
Similar books summaries and other product reviews
On a Cold Road: Tales of Adventure in Canadian Rockby Dave Bidini
McClelland & Stewart; Published: 1998-10-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $9.00
Price in other shops:
Don Cherry's Hockey Stories and Stuffby Don Cherry
McClelland & Stewart; Published: 2009-10-27; Paperback; Book
Best price: $9.71
Price in other shops:
A Season on the Brink: A Year with Bob Knight and the Indiana Hoosiersby John Feinstein
Simon & Schuster; Published: 2011-11-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $9.79
Price in other shops:
Veeck--As In Wreck: The Autobiography of Bill Veeckby Bill Veeck, Ed Linn
University Of Chicago Press; Published: 2001-04-07; Paperback; Book
Best price: $46.03
The Breaks of the Gameby David Halberstam
Hyperion; Published: 2009-02-17; Paperback; Book
Best price: $7.93
Price in other shops:
Ball Fourby Jim Bouton
Wiley; Published: 1990-07-12; Paperback; Book
Best price: $8.24
Price in other shops:
Tough Guy: My Life on the Edgeby Bob Probert, Kirstie McLellan Day
Triumph Books; Published: 2011-10-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $8.91
Price in other shops:
The Greatest Hockey Stories Ever Told: The Finest Writers on IceLyons Press; Published: 2006-09-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $9.77
Price in other shops:
Sports Illustrated The Hockey Bookby Editors of Sports Illustrated
Sports Illustrated; Published: 2010-09-28; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $18.37
Price in other shops:
The Boys of Winter: The Untold Story of a Coach, a Dream, and the 1980 U.S. Olympic Hockey Teamby Wayne Coffey
Broadway; Published: 2005-10-25; Paperback; Book
Best price: $7.92
Price in other shops: