{"product_id":"coach-the-pat-burns-story","title":"USED: Coach: The Pat Burns Story","description":"\u003cp\u003ePat Burns was one of the great NHL coaches. He worked with the Montreal Canadiens, Toronto Maple Leafs, Boston Bruins and New Jersey Devils, and seemed always to enjoy instant success. He capped his extraordinary career by coaching the New Jersey Devils to a Stanley Cup victory in 2003. Cancer--his third bout--finally claimed him in 2010, aged 58. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRosie DiManno, who knew Burns well, has written a revealing, exhilarating and heartfelt account of his life: his childhood as a fatherless, solitary male surrounded by many women, his years as a police officer, his glorious coaching career and his long and characteristically valiant ending.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCoach is both the first major biography of Burns and one that, with its revelations, personal insights and riveting prose, is--like the man himself--sure to be both controversial and hard to beat. Rosie DiManno knew, liked and admired Burns, and in the writing of this book has interviewed many, many people from every stage of his life. She is not blind to his less endearing qualities, but seeks to explain them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDiManno reveals a man of contradictions--gruff and crude, bullying and sentimental, and easily wounded. She shows, moreover, a man of hockey. The Burns who rode motorcycles, dressed like a cowboy, and sweet-talked the ladies was, says DiManno, a self-creation. His one indisputable, true talent was for coaching hockey. He was a pure coach. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDiManno tells a compelling story and helps us to understand a complex man, one who gave little of himself to the public and yet whose funeral was a spectacle. How did that happen? Who was Pat Burns? Rosie DiManno, who witnessed much of the story, has the answers.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rosie Dimanno","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53048646729941,"sku":"9780385676380","price":16.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0780\/5471\/9701\/files\/9780385676380.jpg?v=1769447668","url":"https:\/\/nextchapterleduc.ca\/products\/coach-the-pat-burns-story","provider":"Next Chapter","version":"1.0","type":"link"}