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The Class

by Ken Dryden
Ken Dryden
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INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER
From bestselling author Ken Dryden, a riveting new book.
On Tuesday, September 6, 1960, the day after Labour Day, class 9G at Etobicoke Collegiate Institute in a suburb of Toronto assembled for the first time. Its thirty-five students, having written special exams, came to be known as the “Selected Class.”
They would stay together through high school, with few exceptions. They would spend more than two hundred days a year together. Few had known each other before. Few have been in other than accidental contact in all the decades since.
Their ancestors were almost all from working-class backgrounds. Their parents had lived their formative years through depression and war. They themselves were born into a postwar world of new homes, new schools, new churches. New suburbs. Of new classes like this one. Of boundless possibilities.
When almost anything seems within reach, what do we reach for?
Ken Dryden was one of these thirty-five. In his varied, improbable life, he had wondered often how he had gotten from there to here. How any of us do. He decided to try and find his classmates, to see how they are, what they are doing, how life has been for them. They talked many long hours, in a way they had never talked before. Most had married, some divorced, most have kids, many have grandkids.
This is the story of a place, a time, and so much more.
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Publisher: McClelland & Stewart Edition: Unabridged

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  • ISBN: 9780771011641
  • File size: 566006 KB
  • Release date: October 17, 2023
  • Duration: 19:39:10

MP3 audiobook

  • ISBN: 9780771011641
  • File size: 566082 KB
  • Release date: October 17, 2023
  • Duration: 19:51:02
  • Number of parts: 20

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Biography & Autobiography History Nonfiction

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English

INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER
From bestselling author Ken Dryden, a riveting new book.
On Tuesday, September 6, 1960, the day after Labour Day, class 9G at Etobicoke Collegiate Institute in a suburb of Toronto assembled for the first time. Its thirty-five students, having written special exams, came to be known as the “Selected Class.”
They would stay together through high school, with few exceptions. They would spend more than two hundred days a year together. Few had known each other before. Few have been in other than accidental contact in all the decades since.
Their ancestors were almost all from working-class backgrounds. Their parents had lived their formative years through depression and war. They themselves were born into a postwar world of new homes, new schools, new churches. New suburbs. Of new classes like this one. Of boundless possibilities.
When almost anything seems within reach, what do we reach for?
Ken Dryden was one of these thirty-five. In his varied, improbable life, he had wondered often how he had gotten from there to here. How any of us do. He decided to try and find his classmates, to see how they are, what they are doing, how life has been for them. They talked many long hours, in a way they had never talked before. Most had married, some divorced, most have kids, many have grandkids.
This is the story of a place, a time, and so much more.
Expand title description text
Biography & Autobiography History Nonfiction
  • Details

    Publisher:
    McClelland & Stewart
    Edition:
    Unabridged

    OverDrive Listen audiobook
    ISBN: 9780771011641
    File size: 566006 KB
    Release date: October 17, 2023
    Duration: 19:39:10

    MP3 audiobook
    ISBN: 9780771011641
    File size: 566082 KB
    Release date: October 17, 2023
    Duration: 19:51:02
    Number of parts: 20

  • Creators
  • Formats
    OverDrive Listen audiobook
    MP3 audiobook
  • Languages
    English
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