Beartown (Unabridged)
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4.3 • 459 Ratings
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- $22.99
Publisher Description
Now an HBO Original Series
“You’ll love this engrossing novel.” —People
Named a Best Book of the Year by LibraryReads, BookBrowse, and Goodreads
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Anxious People, a dazzling and profound novel about a small town with a big dream—and the price required to make it come true.
By the lake in Beartown is an old ice rink, and in that ice rink Kevin, Amat, Benji, and the rest of the town’s junior ice hockey team are about to compete in the national semi-finals—and they actually have a shot at winning. All the hopes and dreams of this place now rest on the shoulders of a handful of teenage boys.
Under that heavy burden, the match becomes the catalyst for a violent act that will leave a young girl traumatized and a town in turmoil. Accusations are made and, like ripples on a pond, they travel through all of Beartown.
This is a story about a town and a game, but even more about loyalty, commitment, and the responsibilities of friendship; the people we disappoint even though we love them; and the decisions we make every day that come to define us. In this story of a small forest town, Fredrik Backman has found the entire world.
Customer Reviews
Life changing
I’ve been listening to this book over the span of a few weeks and because of it I have started to play hockey. By far my favorite book of all time!!💗
Too much hockey
The book is 100% about hockey the first 50% of the book, until something actually happens. Too many characthers, difficult to keep up. I stopped reading this book and then resumed, given the good reviews, but deffinetely not my type of book.
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It was a hard book to read. That’s how you know it was good.