Beartown
| Category: | Book |
| By (author): | Backman, Fredrik |
| Subject: | FICTION / General |
| FICTION / Humorous / General | |
| FICTION / Literary | |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster |
| Published: | March 2019 |
| Format: | Book-paperback |
| Pages: | 448 |
| Size: | 8.25in x 5.31in x 1.00in |
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- $ 19.99
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Additional Notes
| From The Publisher* | The #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove returns with a dazzling, profound novel about a small town with a big dream-and the price required to make it come true. People say Beartown is finished. A tiny community nestled deep in the forest, it is slowly losing ground to the ever encroaching trees. But down by the lake stands an old ice rink, built generations ago by the working men who founded this town. And in that ice rink is the reason people in Beartown believe tomorrow will be better than today. Their junior ice hockey team is about to compete in the national semi-finals, and they actually have a shot at winning. All the hopes and dreams of this place now rest on the shoulders of a handful of teenage boys. Being responsible for the hopes of an entire town is a heavy burden, and the semi-final match is the catalyst for a violent act that will leave a young girl traumatized and a town in turmoil. Accusations are made and, like ripples on a pond, they travel through all of Beartown, leaving no resident unaffected. Beartown explores the hopes that bring a small community together, the secrets that tear it apart, and the courage it takes for an individual to go against the grain. In this story of a small forest town, Fredrik Backman has found the entire world. |
| Review Quote* | "I wasn't sure I would love a novel centred on hockey - but as with Friday Night Lights this is actually a story about people - about strength and tribal loyalty and what we unwittingly do when trying to show our boys how to be men. I utterly believed in the residents of Beartown, and felt ripped apart by the events in the book." |
| Review Quote* | "Like Friday Night Lights, this is about more than youth sports; it's part coming-of-age novel, part study of moral failure, and finally a chronicle of groupthink in which an unlikely hero steps forward to save more than one person from self-destruction. A thoroughly empathetic examination of the fragile human spirit, Backman's latest will resonate a long time." |
| Review Quote* | "Backman, a bestseller-list mainstay...returns with the story of a down-and-out town and its hopeful young hockey team...The sentimentally savvy Backman takes a sobering and solemn look at the ways alienation and acceptance, ethics and emotions nearly destroy a small town and young people." |
| Review Quote* | "You'll love this engrossing novel." |
| Review Quote* | "There's so much heartbreak here, so much wisdom and raw emotion packed inside, that reading this novel makes for a powerful experience." |
| Review Quote* | "Consider this the Friday Night Lights of the ice rink. . . . Beartown has all the pleasures of a rainy-day matinee." |
| Review Quote* | "This story is a charmer." |
| Review Quote* | "You don't have to know hockey to enjoy this story; in fact, you might like it a little better if you don't. You may even love it if you're a fan of keeps-you-guessing novels of exquisite storytelling. Undoubtedly, if you're a big Backman fan, you need this book because Beartown cannot be beat." |
| Review Quote* | "Fredrik Backman puts out some of the most human novels. Each and every work is carefully, delicately crafted, delving into the emotional depths of individuals that one might not look twice in real life. . . . Beartown is undoubtedly his masterpiece." |