Beartown - Fredrik Backman

Beartown

By Fredrik Backman

  • Release Date: 2017-04-25
  • Genre: Literary Fiction
Score: 4.5
4.5
From 2,411 Ratings
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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.

Reviews

  • Brilliant! And deep. And moving.

    5
    By DaoistDoc
    Fredrik Backman does it again! I feel I’ve gotten to know a handful of truly marvelous human beings, and wish there were many, many more people of such caliber in this world. My Dad’s Canadian and played hockey as a boy, a teen and into his college years. Despite growing up in Los Angeles (not the first city to come to mind when talking about g about hockey!), we went to watch the LA Kings play bloody games (yeah, this was in the 1960s, so there was always blood on the ice). My parents took us ice skating every week at the Olympic rink in Pasadena, California, where my parents ice danced during the Couples Only periods. As a former opera singer, I understand obsession with something you love madly, the drive to perfect your skills, the joys and sorrows of an all-consuming career. So I relished that constant, passionate drumbeat that provides much of the structure of this story, but Mr. Backman’s intimate understanding of his characters in all their complicated glory provides the real meat on the bones of this story of passionate devotion to a sport that demands everything of those who love it. Read it. You’ll love it.

  • Beartown

    5
    By hmrgarner
    Mindblowingly perfect

  • 5 Difficult Stars

    5
    By Scott_A_Miller
    5 Difficult Stars. Everything I heard about this book being great was absolutely true. I didn’t know how difficult and sad it would be. It was everything a great book strives to be though, I think. It was also too true, too typical of our world, too maddening. I was just mad during all the times I wasn’t sad. I can’t wait to see where it goes. I think that it should be easier. At least I hope so.

  • Emotional

    5
    By Pretty998
    I read the entire book in one sitting. The plot is relatable to an extent and you can really feel for the characters.

  • Beartown

    1
    By MEB*
    Seriously depressing. And the ending isn’t good enough to justify suffering through all those pages of awful. I laughed out loud on every page of A Man Called Ove. This is the exact opposite. It makes you want to cry on every page.

  • Bear town

    5
    By Marianheln
    As I hockey mom this was the most honest depiction I could have imagined. I recognized many of the characters as people I knew. I recognized many of the players… my own son among them. Read this book you will hate it. You will be depressed by it, and in the end you will believe in it and in human nature and love it.

  • Intense and heartbreaking

    5
    By ascerichan
    This book kept me awake for many nights, it’s intensity of the incident makes all the emotions so much more real

  • Amazing!

    5
    By Jbherrera
    One of the best books I have read in a long time.

  • Intense

    5
    By BrendaJTX
    I thoroughly enjoyed this book and its intensity. I am not a hockey fan but thoroughly enjoyed learning about the sport and the character development was excellent. There are some very serious topics and reading how a small town handles this is real and raw. Immediately getting the next book.

  • Extraordinary Storytelling

    5
    By asapr212
    What Louise Penny does for Three Pines, Fredrik Backman accomplishes in Beartown - the creation of a community you want to visit with people you want to get to know. The story is excellent, but at the end of the book its the characters you want more of. Looking forward to the rest of the series.

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