Now is the Winter: Thinking about Hockey

By: Richard Harrison, Jamie Dopp

June 2009
140 pages | ISBN 978-1-894987-34-9
$25.00

Editors Jamie Dopp and Richard Harrison have put together a wide-ranging collection of essays that examine all aspects of Canada's beloved sport. From its mythical beginning on a frozen northern pond to its evolution into a sport for mass consumption, with many fascinating stops along the way, this collection celebrates hockey while acknowledging that there is more to it than a lone figure skating on an outdoor rink.

Reviews

• Book Review (Angie Abdoue, Arete, 3/25/2010). "You don't have to love hockey to love Now is the Winter. The insights gleaned are not limited to this single game. The book is multidisciplinary in the truest sense, with the contributors representing over a dozen fields of study, including Canadian Literature, Kinesiology, History, Creative Writing, Social Anthropology, Sport Management, Business, Indigenous Literatures, and Communications. Some essays consider hockey and popular culture in general terms, and some are as specific as the analysis of the 2006 trade of former Edmonton Oiler Chris Pronger."
• Sports Fan Holiday Gift List (T. Kent Morgan and Dutch Holland, The Prime Times, 12/10/2009). “In Now is the Winter, editors Jamie Dopp and Richard Harrison have pulled together a collection of essays that are sure to get the reader ‘thinking about hockey.’”

Other Titles by Richard Harrison

• Secret Identity Reader: Essays on Sex, Death and the Superhero (2010)
• Worthy of his Fall (2005)
• Hero of the Play: 10th Anniversary Edition (2004)
• Big Breath of a Wish (1998)

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Now is the Winter
Click to see the table of contents and read Jamie Dopp and Richard Harrison's introduction to Now is the Winter: Thinking about hockey.