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Maclean's Percival Leary was once the King of the Ice, one of hockey's greatest heroes. Now, in the South Grouse Nursing Home, where he shares a room with Edmund "Blue" Hermann, the antagonistic and alcoholic reporter who once chronicled his career, Leary looks back on his tumultuous life and times: his days at the boys' reformatory when he ...
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- Paul Quarrington
King Leary is a novel by Canadian humorist Paul Quarrington, published in 1987 by Doubleday Canada. The novel is part of an unofficial trilogy with Quarrington's earlier The Life of Hope and his later Logan in Overtime.
Jan 1, 2001 · The story of the once-great hockey player Percival "King" Leary who, after scoring the Stanley Cup winning goal back in "one-nine-one-nine" and coaching the "Toronto Maple Leaves" to glory in the 40s, is now old and decrepit in a small-town nursing home.
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With his male nurse, his son, and the irrepressible Blue, Leary sets off for Toronto on one last madcap adventure as he revisits scenes of his glorious life as the King of the Ice. From the Trade Paperback edition.
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- Paul Quarrington
Feb 17, 2017 · The story of Percival Leary transcends the label "hockey book." Paul Quarrington's 1988 classic tells the often touching, often hilarious story of a once-great hockey hero.
Paul Quarrington's novel, Galveston, was nominated for the Scotiabank Giller Prize; King Leary won the CBC's 2008 Canada Reads competition and the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal; and Whale Music was awarded the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction.
With his male nurse, his son, and the irrepressible Blue, Leary sets off for Toronto on one last adventure as he revisits the scenes of his glorious life as King of the Ice. About King Leary Selected as the 2008 CBC Canada Reads Winner!
