Dave Feschuk: Bourne again: A hockey family tries to turn the page
Some months back, Bourne, the Sportsnet hockey analyst, sent a draft of his new memoir to his father, Bob Bourne, the four-timewith the 1980s New York Islanders. And if the author awaited his dad’s reaction with anxiousness, it’s because the book, at times, is contentious.
And though Bob, to this day, says he remembers the episode differently, he does not argue with the crux of the book’s piercing opening anecdote: From Justin’s perspective, it was a heartbreaking moment of betrayal that drove another wedge into an already troubled relationship. The son who opens his book detailing the resentment he harbours for his father eventually recognizes that he has essentially become his father: a pro hockey player, albeit a minor-leaguer, and a full-blown alcoholic whose addiction threatens to destroy the world as he knows it. Not that it ever comes to that.
“I spared a lot of details. I just needed to pick a story — a story to represent how hurt I have been because of my dad’s alcoholism,” Justin said. “And yeah, it certainly had the potential to hurt him, and it probably didn’t feel that good. But I was also at a point where I had felt hurt enough times in my life that were it to have hurt him a little bit, I could have lived with that.
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