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Our Life With The Rocket: The Maurice Richard Story Author: Roch Carrier Hardcover Usually ships in 24 hours Delivery is subject to warehouse availability. Shipping delays may occur if we receive more orders than stock. Our Price: $35.00 Our Sale Price: $7.99 Savings: $27.01 (77%) Ordering is 100% secure . Spend $39 or more at chapters.indigo.ca and your order ships free!. ( Details ) Canadian Author | ISBN: 0670883751 Published: September 2001 | Published by Penguin Our customers who bought this item also bought: How I Play Golf (2001) Book ~ Tiger Woods The Corrections (2001) Book ~ Jonathan Franzen The Hockey Sweater (1984) Book ~ Roch Carrier On Snooker: The Game and the Characters... (2001) Book ~ Mordecai Richler Clara Callan (2001) Book ~ Richard B. Wright From the Publisher Maurice Richard, the Rocket, was the greatest hockey player of his era and he remains an enduring icon of hockey excellence and passion for the game. During the 1944-45 season, the Rocket scored fifty goals in fifty games – an unprecedented accomplishment. When he retired after an eighteen-year NHL career, he had racked up 544 regular season goals and eighty-two Stanley Cup play-off goals, a record for the time. He was an electrifying player to watch: an aggressive, powerful but surprisingly agile skater who could put the puck in the net even with a lumbering defenseman dragging him down. His electric gaze chilled goaltenders and his intensity sobered opponents and teammates alike. He was, without argument, one of hockey’s most fascinating and talented players, and he continues to hold almost mythic stature in the sport. But can the Rocket’s athletic ability really explain the passion he inspired? Quebec fans revered him: they followed his accomplishments with tenacity; they taped pictures of Richard and his family to their kitchen walls, to their shop windows and to their store cash registers; they memorized his statistics, his history, the names of his children. His season suspension in March 1955, after an on-ice brawl, ignited the infamous Richard Riots in Montreal; riots which some Canadian historians have suggested were a noisy precursor to Quebec’s Quiet Revolution. Could a hockey player really drive the course of Canadian history? In Our Life with the Rocket, Roch Carrier captures a world in which a brooding, taciturn athlete, who hated to speak publicly and rarely expressed opinions on anything, became a powerful, enduring symbol for French-Canadians - a reflection of their hopes and aspirations at a time when they felt painfully vulnerable amongst Canada’s English majority. In this lyrical and beautifully wrought narrative, Carrier evokes the thrill of watching or listening to the Rocket and his teammates play; the joy and agony of the Canadiens’ rivalry with the Toronto Maple Leafs; and the struggle of daily life that formed the backdrop for Maurice Richard’s spectacular accomplishments. Our Life with the Rocket also follows the history of a young boy, Roch himself, whose youthful worship of Richard was tempered by politics and personal life and evolved into an entirely different sort of appreciation for an extraordinary man. Sure to become a Canadian classic, Our Life with the Rocket is part hockey book, part biography and part social history, and stands as a remarkable elegy for a colourful chapter of Canada’s past. Reader Reviews Average Reader Review: Number of Reviews: 1 1. Roch Scores With The Rocket Reviewer: Silvio Pan from Toronto, Ontario (davpan@idirect.com) Date: 2/16/2002 9:01:41 PM Like no other athlete before and since, Maurice the Rocket Richard has attained a heroic status among Canadians, especially those of French descent. Faced with extraordinarily high expectations, it is no wonder the author trepidated when first approached to write this biography. Without elaborating on why he had a change of heart, it becomes evident that Roch Carrier is not so much writing a biography as he is unleashing the power of submerged collected memories to resurface and speak on what it meant for a French Canadian Catholic to grow up in an era where the Rocket epitomized their aspirations. By weaving together psychological, sociological and existential vistas, Carrier succeeds in transposing the fate of French Canadians with their prodigal son. The defining quality that differentiated Richard and which has endeared him in the hearts of fans was his courage to live by a code of honor. Our Life With The Rocket is a fitting tribute and does honor to the man. Info Desk iREWARDS Program About Our Company Affiliate Opportunities Careers Contact Us Corporate Sales Gift Certificates Privacy Policy Shipping Rates Store Locations Wish List chapters.indigo.ca: bargainbooks Shopping Bag | Account Centre | Wish List | Help iREWARDS Program | Corporate Sales | Store Locations All Products Books DVD Video Gifts Books Advanced Search Search Tips About this Book From the Publisher Reader Reviews Browse Bargains The Arts Biography Buy Canadian Fiction Food & Drink Fun & Games Health History Home & Garden Kids Books Reference & Language Religion & Spirituality Science & Nature

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The Seattle Times, August 03, 2002: Toronto - Indigo Books & Music and a group representing Canada's independent booksellers said they will challenge in court a government decision letting Amazon.com set up a Canadian Web site. Indigo, Canada's largest book chain, and the Canadian Booksellers Association said Amazon.com has violated rules that bar non-Canadians from controlling bookstores. Seattle-based Amazon.com is paying Assured Logistics, a unit of government-owned Canada Post, to run a Toronto-area warehouse and deliver books, music and movies ordered through the month-old Canadian site, Amazon.ca. That way, Amazon doesn't operate a bookstore in Canada. "The Heritage Department has confirmed Amazon.ca is operating in accordance with Canadian laws," said company spokeswoman Kristin Schaefer.

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