The rape forces a new set of alliances to be drawn. He will eventually testify to the police and become alienated from the team after Kevin is arrested. Amat has been in love with Maya for years and witnesses the end of the rape. The team needed speed more than anything.Īt a victory party after the semifinal, Kevin rapes Maya when she will not have sex with him. Amat had been playing on a younger team until a coach saw how fast he was on the ice. The team manages to win the semifinal games, largely due to the last-minute promotion of a small, poor boy named Amat. They also introduce Peter Andersson, the General Manager, his 15-year old daughter Maya, his wife Kira, and several other characters who will play pivotal roles. The early chapters delineate Kevin’s character and his relationship to his coaches, his teammates, and his parents. If it cannot attract sponsors for the team, there is no money for the economy. Beartown is financially depressed and its citizens live for hockey: the team’s successes and failures are tied to the town’s fortune.
His parents have groomed him obsessively to be a star since childhood, and the town views him as a commodity. Kevin Erdahl is the star of the junior hockey team. When the novel opens, the narrator reveals that it is the story of how a teenager put a gun to another teenager’s head and pulled the trigger. A chapter may switch between the third-person viewpoints of a dozen characters, with very few scenes lasting more than two pages. The novel unfolds over fifty chapters and is told in brief scenes, with an omniscient narrator occasionally interjecting philosophical maxims and sketching out the backgrounds of many of the characters.
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