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The hockey sweater : and other stories / Roch Carrier ; translated by Sheila Fischman ; [introduction by Dave Bidini].

by Carrier, Roch.

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A List/House of Anansi Press, 2012, c1979.

9781770892514 (softcover)

Enfants du bonhomme dans la lune. English English

viii, 140 p. ; 22 cm.

Translated from the Canadian French.

The nun who returned to Ireland -- The shoemaker -- Idiot death -- The machine for detecting everything that's American -- The day I became an Apostate -- The month of the dead -- Son of a smaller hero -- Pierrette's bumps -- When the taxes split the roof -- The hockey sweater -- Foxes need fresh water -- A great hunter -- What language do bears speak? -- Industry in our village -- Perhaps the trees do travel -- The good people and the bad people -- Do medals float on the ocean? -- Grandfather's fear -- The sorcerer -- A secret lost in the water.

The Hockey Sweater, the title story in this 20-story collection, has become an enduring classic: a Quebec boy and Habs fan is shipped a Toronto Maple Leafs sweater by mistake.

French-Canadian fiction -- Translations into English.

Canadian fiction.

Short stories, Canadian.

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