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On one level, this is the personal story of Theoren Fleury, the diminutive captain of the NHL’s Calgary Flames. On another level, this book examines how a pro athlete comes to be famous, and what it means. It is a story about commercialism fed by adulation, about power and riches and the presumed and real virtues of the star players who acquire them. On yet another level it is about what Ken Dryden called simply “The Game.”
Theoren Fleury received global recognition during the 1996 World Cup of Hockey by single-handedly winning two games for Canada and then by playing in his first All-Star Game in the following winter. Physically, Fleury is the smallest player in the NHL, yet, so intense is he, so quick, so skilled at faking and scoring, and so undaunted by the over 400 pounds of onrushing defencemen that routinely bar his way, that his coach and teammates have chosen him to be team captain. He is now a millionaire. He is also an intriguing combination of country boy, quick-witted city kid, ruthless pro athlete, father and family man, and reluctant, soft-spoken but sharp-tongued media hero.
In Fury, Andrew Malcolm follows Fleury through an entire hockey season. Yet this is more than a fan’s inside look at a major hockey star: it is also an intriguing, revealing, funny, and exciting look at Canada’s game by a gifted reporter and award-winning writer.
Theoren Fleury received global recognition during the 1996 World Cup of Hockey by single-handedly winning two games for Canada and then by playing in his first All-Star Game in the following winter. Physically, Fleury is the smallest player in the NHL, yet, so intense is he, so quick, so skilled at faking and scoring, and so undaunted by the over 400 pounds of onrushing defencemen that routinely bar his way, that his coach and teammates have chosen him to be team captain. He is now a millionaire. He is also an intriguing combination of country boy, quick-witted city kid, ruthless pro athlete, father and family man, and reluctant, soft-spoken but sharp-tongued media hero.
In Fury, Andrew Malcolm follows Fleury through an entire hockey season. Yet this is more than a fan’s inside look at a major hockey star: it is also an intriguing, revealing, funny, and exciting look at Canada’s game by a gifted reporter and award-winning writer.
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On one level, FURY is the inspirational story of the smallest man in professional hockey, a 5-foot-6-inch, 160-pound dynamo who overcame his size, a dysfunctional family, loss of the use of his right arm for a year as a teen, racial prejudice and Crohn's disease to become a regular NHL All-Star, member of his country's Olympic Dream Team and all-time career goal scoring leader for the Calgary Flames. Not only was Fleury always smaller than his competition, he was always TOLD that he was smaller and could not compete in this big man's sport. *But on another level, FURY is the little-known, detailed, behind-the-scenes human story of what life is like today inside the well-known lucrative, high-pressure, fame-filled existence of a professional athlete--the locker rooms, the road trips, the trades, the feuds and human misunderstandings, the pressures, on the bench, during games and practices and in the car and at home as the Rocky Balboa of hockey attempts to live a normal family life while the media and world see him more as a plastic icon of pluck. * We also get some provocative thoughts on the personal and societal costs--as well as the benefits--of fame in a black and white, media-driven world of instant celebrity and equally instant infamy. * This is the 10th non-fiction book by Malcolm, a 26-year veteran of The New York Times as an award-winning correspondent, editor, bureau chief and columnist. The American son of Canadian parents, Malcolm's bi-national experiences and insights turned "The Canadians" into a TV mini-series and a long-running best-seller examining the peculiar love-hate relationship between these two North American geographic goliaths. * The Flames and Fleury, his family and friends all granted Malcolm unusual access to their corporate and personal lives. So we learn how trades are made as well as how a famous person tries to carve out some privacy in the glaring public eye. And how a big league sports confrontation is staged and televised, including the music, the intermission entertainments, the concession stands, the Zamboni drivers and ice managers who create the frozen stage, the front and ticket offices, and even life inside the team mascot. We learn how one woman manages the immense job of moving 40 team members and workers thousands of miles to dozens of hotels on scores of buses for hundreds of meals and games in 25 different arenas throughout an entire season. * And we see how one player and his on-ice exploits affect the lives of many workers and fans, whom he has never met. * This is a highly readable, very human account of life inside pro sports by a pro writer and an avid fan. **FURY has been officially endorsed by the Commissioner of the National Hockey League, Gary B. Bettman, who called it "a dramatic human tale." *** "Refreshing reading"--Calgary Herald. ****"It all works beautifully"--The Globe and Mail.
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On one level, FURY is the inspirational story of the smallest man in professional hockey, a 5-foot-6-inch, 160-pound dynamo who overcame his size, a dysfunctional family, loss of the use of his right arm for a year as a teen, racial prejudice and Crohn's disease to become a regular NHL All-Star, member of his country's Olympic Dream Team and all-time career goal scoring leader for the Calgary Flames. Not only was Fleury always smaller than his competition, he was always TOLD that he was smaller and could not compete in this big man's sport. *But on another level, FURY is the little-known, detailed, behind-the-scenes human story of what life is like today inside the well-known lucrative, high-pressure, fame-filled existence of a professional athlete--the locker rooms, the road trips, the trades, the feuds and human misunderstandings, the pressures, on the bench, during games and practices and in the car and at home as the Rocky Balboa of hockey attempts to live a normal family life while the media and world see him more as a plastic icon of pluck. * We also get some provocative thoughts on the personal and societal costs--as well as the benefits--of fame in a black and white, media-driven world of instant celebrity and equally instant infamy. * This is the 10th non-fiction book by Malcolm, a 26-year veteran of The New York Times as an award-winning correspondent, editor, bureau chief and columnist. The American son of Canadian parents, Malcolm's bi-national experiences and insights turned "The Canadians" into a TV mini-series and a long-running best-seller examining the peculiar love-hate relationship between these two North American geographic goliaths. * The Flames and Fleury, his family and friends all granted Malcolm unusual access to their corporate and personal lives. So we learn how trades are made as well as how a famous person tries to carve out some privacy in the glaring public eye. And how a big league sports confrontation is staged and televised, including the music, the intermission entertainments, the concession stands, the Zamboni drivers and ice managers who create the frozen stage, the front and ticket offices, and even life inside the team mascot. We learn how one woman manages the immense job of moving 40 team members and workers thousands of miles to dozens of hotels on scores of buses for hundreds of meals and games in 25 different arenas throughout an entire season. * And we see how one player and his on-ice exploits affect the lives of many workers and fans, whom he has never met. * This is a highly readable, very human account of life inside pro sports by a pro writer and an avid fan. **FURY has been officially endorsed by the Commissioner of the National Hockey League, Gary B. Bettman, who called it "a dramatic human tale." *** "Refreshing reading"--Calgary Herald. ****"It all works beautifully"--The Globe and Mail.
Andrew Malcolm was for twenty-six years on the staff of The New York Times, as foreign correspondent, bureau chief, national affairs correspondent, editor, and columnist, with assignments to Chicago, San Francisco, Vietnam, Thailand, Korea, Japan, and Canada. He is the author of nine books including the best-selling The Canadians, which dominated the bestseller lists for many months.
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- PublisherMcClelland & Stewart Ltd
- Publication date1998
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