On this week’s Between the Covers podcast we continue with King Leary (Random House) by Paul Quarrington. The 2008 Canada Reads winning book examines the life of an aging hockey star who travels with a cast of eccentric characters.
When an ad agency invites Percival Leary to the city to make a commercial he jumps at the chance. He’s in a nursing home and long past his prime, so there aren’t many fans who remember his exploits. But the event that actually started him on the road to becoming King of the Ice is crystal clear in Leary’s mind.
It was a prank that went wrong.
Episode four: As a teen Leary follows his friend from one load of trouble to another.
Episode five: Leary’s new home has a motto—to keep a boy out of hot water, put him on ice.
Episode six: Someone challenges Leary as best player on the ice.
Each episode of Between The Covers is between 15 and 17 minutes. The current instalments are below. If you missed previous podcasts you can download them at Between the Covers podcasts.
And if you’re interested in readings of other Canadian books, check out the Hear A Reading page on the Between the Covers site. At the moment, you can listen to Lawrence Hill’s media satire Some Great Thing (Turnstone Press) and Shauna Singh Baldwin’s epic What The Body Remembers (Knopf).
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