“It has been used all kinds of ways,” he said with a shrug. With its depiction of a rural Quebec still very much inward-looking and under the sway of the church, The Hockey Sweater has always been tempting to read as political allegory Carrier, for his part, has long since accepted that the “meaning” of his story is up to its audience. “‘My daughter is getting married and I want her to have three kids,’ ” he recalled one mother saying as she presented him with three copies of the book, to be inscribed to #1, #2 and #3 respectively. “A lady was telling me that her father had died and she was called to the hospital to pick up his stuff, and there was his wallet, a bit of money, and a copy of The Hockey Sweater.” More than once, Carrier has been asked to sign the book for people yet to be born. “Still almost every day there is something,” said Carrier of the ongoing response from readers. Photo by Allen McInnis / Montreal Gazette Roch Carrier, right, author of The Hockey Sweater, and the book’s illustrator, Sheldon Cohen, talk about the 30th anniversary of this Canadian classic on Wednesday, Nov, 19, 2014, in Montreal. Talking with Carrier and the 65-year-old Cohen together last week, there was a palpable sense of two artists amazed, even perhaps a bit dazed, at the journey one very short story has taken them on. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.
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