King Leary
by: Paul Quarrington
Defended by: Dave Bidini

The story of Percival Leary transcends the label "hockey book." Paul Quarrington's 1988 novel, which won the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour, tells the often touching, often hilarious story of a once-great hockey hero. Now largely forgotten and sharing a room in a nursing home with an alcoholic reporter, Leary looks back on the highs and lows of his professional and personal life as he sets out on one final quest to reclaim his title of "King of the Ice."

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