Wayne Coffey is an award-winning sportswriter for the New York Daily News and the author of Winning Sounds Like This, among other books. He lives in the Hudson Valley region of New York.
“A wonderfully detailed enrichment of the greatest sports moment of
the twentieth century. Wayne Coffey’s fresh perspective artfully
takes a twenty-five-year-old story and advances it to the present
with an enhanced appreciation of that stunning, breathtaking, still
too-amazing-to-believe accomplishment.” —Al Michaels
“The 1980 U.S. hockey team has been mythologized in print and on
screen for almost twenty-five years. Wayne Coffey’s The Boys of
Winter goes much deeper than that and, for the first time, gives us
a clear picture of who these remarkable boys—and men—were . . . and
are. It is a very fine book.” —John Feinstein
“I celebrated my fifteenth birthday on the very day that the ‘Boys
of Winter’ beat the Russians in Lake Placid. Wayne Coffey
brilliantly weaves the behind-the-scenes story that amplifies how
improbable this ‘miracle’ really was.” —Pat LaFontaine, NHL Hall of
Famer
“The great stories can always be retold, but when they are retold
with the emotion, the muscular prose, the freshness that Coffey
brings to the Miracle on Ice, they seem new.” —Robert Lipsyte, New
York Times, and author of The Contender
“No matter how many times I hear the story of the U.S. Olympic
hockey team’s heroics in Lake Placid in 1980, I want to hear it
again. It is allegory, fable, wonderful drama. Now Wayne Coffey
comes to the campfire to tell the tale again, raising the requisite
lumps in the requisite throats, adding new details to the familiar
pictures. Very nice work. Very nice, indeed.” —Leigh Montville,
author of Ted Williams
“First came the Hollywood version of the Miracle on Ice. Now comes
the real story, rich in context and texture, as only a journalist
and author like Wayne Coffey can report it and tell it.” —Harvey
Araton, New York Times
“Meticulously researched, entertaining, and enlightening as an
example of sportswriting and social history, Wayne Coffey has
re-created the event that would eventually put the Cold War on ice.
The Boys of Winter is the definitive book on a defining moment in
American culture.” —Jay Atkinson, author of Ice Time
“Wayne Coffey re-creates the excitement of the unlikely run the
U.S. men’s hockey team made through the 1980 Olympics . . . an
adventure that seems even more unlikely now than it felt
twenty-five years ago.” —Bill Littlefield, host of NPR’s Only a
Game and author of Fall Classics
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