Le Rocket

by Roch Carrier

Maurice Richard ne fut pas seulement un briseur de records, il fut aussi un élément de fierté nationale en des temps de grisaille. (...) Traitant magistralement de l'influence bénéfique que le fabuleux Maurice Richard a eue sur plusieurs générations, ne serait-ce que pour montrer le pouvoir qu'il est possible d'avoir sur sa destinée, cet ouvrage qui dépasse les légendes, les mornes statistiques sportives et les ragots de vestiaire se laisse lire avec un intérêt soutenu et une jubilation certaine.

432 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 6, 2015

About the author

Roch Carrier, OC is a Canadian novelist, playwright and author of "contes" (a very brief form of the short story). He is among the best known Quebec writers in English Canada.

From 1994 to 1997, he served as head of the Canada Council. In 1998, he ran as an electoral candidate for the Quebec Liberal Party under Jean Charest, in the riding of Crémazie. He was defeated by 309 votes.

In 1991, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. From 1999 to 2004, Carrier was National Librarian of Canada.

A quote from "Le chandail de hockey" ("The Hockey Sweater"), one of Carrier's contes, is reprinted on the back of the Canadian five-dollar bill.