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The Awesome Game: One Mans Incredible, Globe-Crushing Hockey Odyssey Audiobook, by Dave Hill Play Audiobook Sample

The Awesome Game: One Man's Incredible, Globe-Crushing Hockey Odyssey Audiobook

The Awesome Game: One Mans Incredible, Globe-Crushing Hockey Odyssey Audiobook, by Dave Hill Play Audiobook Sample
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Read By: Dave Hill Publisher: Doubleday Canada Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 4.33 hours at 1.5x Speed 3.25 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: October 2023 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9780385675543

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

17

Longest Chapter Length:

55:16 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

13 seconds

Average Chapter Length:

23:23 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

3

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Publisher Description

One man's search to answer the ultimate question in sports: Why is hockey so incredibly awesome? Dave Hill--author, actor, rock musician and stand-up comedian--is a truly outstanding American. For one thing, he's part Canadian (an advantage he explored in his previous book Parking the Moose). For another, and maybe this has something to do with his Canadian heritage, he's a totally obsessive fan of hockey. That makes him a minority within a minority: apparently only five percent of the US population admit to liking hockey more than any other sport. In his latest opus, Dave--who's from Cleveland, which hasn't had an NHL team since 1978--tackles this hockey conundrum with full force, drilling down into what makes hockey so damn important in so many parts of the world, despite the average American not recognizing the sport's preeminent greatness. His search for the very soul of hockey has taken him across the globe, from Poland to LA to Kenya, and brought him into contact with many of the sport's great and good. Humorous but heartfelt, Bill Bryson-like but hipper, this is arguably the greatest book ever written about hockey and definitely the one to be asking for at Christmas.

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About Dave Hill

Dave Hill is a comedian, writer, and musician originally from Cleveland but now living in New York City. He has written for the New York Times, the Paris Review, Salon, GQ, McSweeney’s, the Cleveland Plain Dealer, and Guitar World, among other publications. He is a regular contributor to public radio’s This American Life and hosts his own radio show, The Goddamn Dave Hill Show, on WFMU in New Jersey. Dave performs live comedy in theaters and basements all over the world. Dave Hill Doesn’t Live Here Anymore is his second collection of nonfiction essays.