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Boy on ice : the life and death of Derek Boogaard / John Branch.
Van Pelt Library GV848.5.B669 B73 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Branch, John (Sports reporter), author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Boogaard, Derek, 1982-2011.
- Boogaard, Derek.
- Hockey players--Canada--Biography.
- Hockey players.
- Canada.
- Violence in sports.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 371 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2014]
- Summary:
- The "death of hockey star Derek Boogaard at twenty-eight was front-page news across the country in 2011 and helped shatter the silence about violence and concussions in professional sports. Now, in a ... work of narrative nonfiction, ... reporter John Branch tells the ... story of Boogaard's life and heartbreaking death"--Amazon.com.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780393239393
- 039323939X
- OCLC:
- 869437836
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