Search Results for: Boy On Ice The Life And Death Of Derek Boogaard

Shows us, in tender detail, a life consumed by our unholy appetites. Steve Almond, New York Times Book Review"

A Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter traces the career of the NHL enforcer to reveal how a series of concussions led to his accidental death and subsequent investigations into systematic violence in contact sports. 50,000 first printing.

“Shows us, in tender detail, a life consumed by our unholy appetites.”—Steve Almond, New York Times Book Review The tragic 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

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

A GLOBE AND MAIL BEST BOOK OF 2014 A PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BEST BOOK OF 2014 The much-anticipated debut from the Pulitzer Prize–winning New York Times reporter—a behind-the-scenes account of a life lived and lost in the glare of sporting fame The tragic death of hockey star Derek Boogaard at twenty-eight