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| Title Statement | Beartown: a novel / [book club set] : Frederik Backman ; translated by Neil Smith. |
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| Author | Backman, Fredrik, 1981- |
| Additional Contributors | Smith, Neil(Neil Andrew) |
| Publication | Toronto, Ontario: Simon and Schuster, A Division of Simon and Schuster, Incorporated,2017. |
| Edition | Simon & Schuster Canada edition. |
| Extent of Item | 418 pages ; |
| ISBN | 9781501163104 1501163108 |
| General Notes | Translated from the Swedish. |
| Summary | A poignant story of a hockey town paralyzed by scandal. Jobs are disappearing and Beartown is slowly dying, so for its citizens, hockey is everything. This is the story not just of hockey, but of a 15-year-old named Maya Andersson, whose father, Peter, the general manager of the hockey club, loves hockey, but loves his family more. Seventeen-year-old Kevin Erdahl is the star of Beartown, with a chance to go professional. One night, after a huge win, Maya goes to a raucous party at Kevin's house and is thrilled at his attention, but things get out of hand, and what takes place changes Beartown forever. |
| Subjects & Genres | |
| By Topic | Communities--Fiction |
| Hockey players--Fiction | |
| Scandals--Fiction | |
| Small town life--Fiction--Sweden | |
| Teenagers--Fiction--Sweden | |
| By Location | Sweden--Fiction |
| By Genre | Hockey stories |
| Swedish fiction | |
| Sports fiction | |
