Boys of Winter: The Untold Story of a Coach, a Dream, and the 1980 U.S. Olympic Hockey Team
Boys of Winter: The Untold Story of a Coach, a Dream, and the 1980 U.S. Olympic Hockey Team
Boys of Winter: The Untold Story of a Coach, a Dream, and the 1980 U.S. Olympic Hockey Team
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Description
Description
This evocative account of the improbable American adventure in Lake Placid explores the untold stories of the U.S. upstarts, their Soviet opponents, and the forces that brought them together. Award-winning sportswriter Coffey casts a fresh eye on this seminal sports event, giving readers an ice-level view of the boys who captivated a country.Available only in Americana 4 & 5.
About the Author
About the Author
Wayne Coffey is an award-winning sportswriter for the New York Daily News and the author of Winning Sounds Like This, among other books. He lives in the Hudson Valley region of New York.
Critical Reviews
Critical Reviews
"A wonderfully detailed enrichment of the greatest sports moment of the twentieth century. Wayne Coffey's fresh perspective artfully takes a twenty-five-year-old story and advances it to the present with an enhanced appreciation of that stunning, breathtaking, still too-amazing-to-believe accomplishment." --Al Michaels "The 1980 U.S. hockey team has been mythologized in print and on screen for almost twenty-five years. Wayne Coffey's The Boys of Winter goes much deeper than that and, for the first time, gives us a clear picture of who these remarkable boys--and men--were . . . and are. It is a very fine book." --John Feinstein "I celebrated my fifteenth birthday on the very day that the 'Boys of Winter' beat the Russians in Lake Placid. Wayne Coffey brilliantly weaves the behind-the-scenes story that amplifies how improbable this 'miracle' really was." --Pat LaFontaine, NHL Hall of Famer "The great stories can always be retold, but when they are retold with the emotion, the muscular prose, the freshness that Coffey brings to the Miracle on Ice, they seem new." --Robert Lipsyte, New York Times, and author of The Contender "No matter how many times I hear the story of the U.S. Olympic hockey team's heroics in Lake Placid in 1980, I want to hear it again. It is allegory, fable, wonderful drama. Now Wayne Coffey comes to the campfire to tell the tale again, raising the requisite lumps in the requisite throats, adding new details to the familiar pictures. Very nice work. Very nice, indeed." --Leigh Montville, author of Ted Williams "First came the Hollywood version of the Miracle on Ice. Now comes the real story, rich in context and texture, as only a journalist and author like Wayne Coffey can report it and tell it." --Harvey Araton, New York Times "Meticulously researched, entertaining, and enlightening as an example of sportswriting and social history, Wayne Coffey has re-created the event that would eventually put the Cold War on ice. The Boys of Winter is the definitive book on a defining moment in American culture." --Jay Atkinson, author of Ice Time "Wayne Coffey re-creates the excitement of the unlikely run the U.S. men's hockey team made through the 1980 Olympics . . . an adventure that seems even more unlikely now than it felt twenty-five years ago." --Bill Littlefield, host of NPR's Only a Game and author of Fall Classics
Publishing Information
Publishing Information
Publisher:
Crown Publishing Group (NY)
Pub date:
2005-10-25
Length:
304 pages
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