The Moved and the Shaken: The Story of One Man's Life

Ashley Thomson is a full librarian at Laurentian University and co-editor or co-author of nine books, most recently Margaret Atwood: A Reference Guide, 1988-2005.

While serving as Ontario Youth Commissioner, lawyer and ex-goaltender
Ken Dryden decided he would like to learn as much as he could about at
least one “average” Ontarian. Accordingly, through contacts with
Imperial Oil, he met Frank Bloye, a customer-service representative for
that company. Born in 1947, the same year as Dryden, Bloye grew up in
Whitby, married in spite of himself, and is the father of three.

Approaching his subject more as a novelist than as a biographer, Dryden
has done a splendid job in bringing Bloye to life. Readers will learn of
Bloye’s dyslexia, his failures in school, his attitudes toward
co-workers and immigrants, and his relations with women. Ironically,
thanks to Dryden, Bloye is no longer an average Ontarian.