Description
The literary road has been very well travelled, but it's safe to say that there has never been a hockey book quite like In the Pressure of the Moment. A cultural critique, a meditation on the art and iconography of sports photography, and also a son's memoir of his hockey-playing father, it is at once scholarly and moving.
Author: David McNeil
Publisher: Midtown Press
Published: 04/15/2025
Pages: 285
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.70d
ISBN13: 9780988110182
ISBN10: 0988110180
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Sports
- Sports & Recreation | Winter Sports | Hockey
- Sports & Recreation | History
About the Author
David McNeil is an Associate Professor of English at Dalhousie University where he teaches a hockey literature class (including an online section) among a number of other subjects. Upon the death of his father, Gerry McNeil, he inherited a number of unique or rare hockey photographs from the 1940-50s era and hours of rare NHL footage. He is the author of a book on war and the grotesque and a number of articles