Ken Dryden

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The Class: A Memoir of a Place, a Time, and UsHardcover, 17 October 2023

The Class: A Memoir of a Place, a Time, and Us
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Print Length
480 pages
Language
English
Publisher
McClelland & Stewart
Date Published
17 Oct 2023
ISBN-10
0771009232
ISBN-13
9780771009235

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From bestselling author Ken Dryden, a riveting new book.

On Tuesday, September 6, 1960, the day after Labour Day, class 9G at Etobicoke Collegiate Institute in a suburb of Toronto assembled for the first time. Its thirty-five students, having written special exams, came to be known as the "Selected Class."

They would stay together through high school, with few exceptions. They would spend more than two hundred days a year together. Few had known each other before. Few have been in other than accidental contact in all the decades since.

Their ancestors were almost all from working-class backgrounds. Their parents had lived their formative years through depression and war. They themselves were born into a postwar world of new homes, new schools, new churches. New suburbs. Of new classes like this one. Of boundless possibilities.

When almost anything seems within reach, what do we reach for?

Ken Dryden was one of these thirty-five. In his varied, improbable life, he had wondered often how he had gotten from there to here. How any of us do. He decided to try and find his classmates, to see how they are, what they are doing, how life has been for them. They talked many long hours, in a way they had never talked before. Most had married, some divorced, most have kids, many have grandkids.

This is the story of a place, a time, and so much more.

Product Details

Author:
Ken Dryden
Book Format:
Hardcover
Country of Origin:
CA
Date Published:
17 October 2023
Dimensions:
22.86 x 15.24 x 3.02 cm
Genre:
Canadian
ISBN-10:
0771009232
ISBN-13:
9780771009235
Language:
English
Pages:
480
Weight:
721.21 gm

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