Download or read book Guerre Yes Sir English written by Roch Carrier and published by House of Anansi Press. This book was released on 1970 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La Guess, Yes Sir! is a wedding, a funeral, and best of all, a full company of Carrier's joyful, blaspheming, vigorous characters.

Download or read book La Guerre Yes Sir Roch Carrier Translated by Sheila Fischman written by Roch Carrier and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book La Guerre Yes Sir written by Roch Carrier and published by 113 p. ; 21 cm.. This book was released on 1970 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author French-Canadian. Text in French.

Download or read book Guerre Yes Sir English written by Roch Carrier and published by House of Anansi. This book was released on 2000-09 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The first novel in the ""La Guerre"" trilogy. A wedding, a funeral, and best of all, a full company of Carrier's joyful, blaspheming, vigorous characters."

Download or read book The Flying Canoe written by Roch Carrier and published by Tundra Books. This book was released on 2004-11-23 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 11-year old Baptiste, spending the winter at a logging camp, gets a chance to go back home by riding "la chasse-galerie" (the devil's canoe) through the sky.

Download or read book The Hockey Sweater written by Roch Carrier and published by Tundra Books. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the days of Roch’s childhood, winters in the village of Ste. Justine were long. Life centered around school, church, and the hockey rink, and every boy’s hero was Montreal Canadiens hockey legend Maurice Richard. Everyone wore Richard’s number 9. They laced their skates like Richard. They even wore their hair like Richard. When Roch outgrows his cherished Canadiens sweater, his mother writes away for a new one. Much to Roch’s horror, he is sent the blue and white sweater of the rival Toronto Maple Leafs, dreaded and hated foes to his beloved team. How can Roch face the other kids at the rink?

Download or read book The Basketball Player written by Roch Carrier and published by Tundra Books. This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Away from home and off to a seminary boarding school for the first time, Roch finds he is expected to play basketball. It's seen as an important tool for facing life's challenges if he is "to go very far on the road of life." And so begins the latest in Roch's sports misadventures as fear of failure sends him running into the night and terrors worse than those on the basketball court. It all leads to a surprise ending as he finds his own way of making his mark.

Download or read book Roch Carrier La Guerre Yes Sir written by Roch Carrier and published by Bristol Classical Press. This book was released on 2000-10-26 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this tragi-comic novel of 1967, French and English are thrown together during World War II as a French Canadian soldier killed at war is returned to his Quebec village by seven English Canadian soldiers. Tensions between French and English which still haunt Canada are conveyed in this story.

Download or read book Romantic Canada written by Victoria Hayward and published by Macmillan Company of Canada. This book was released on 1922 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Our Life with the Rocket written by Roch Carrier and published by . This book was released on 2004-02 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: French Canadian hockey player Maurice Richard, The Rocket,Ó was the greatest player of his era & he remains an enduring icon of hockey excellence. Fans in Quebec province revered him & enthusiastically followed his matchless accomplishments. This book captures a world in which a brooding, taciturn athlete, who hated to speak publicly & rarely expressed opinions on anything, became a powerful, enduring symbol for French Canadians at a time when they felt painfully vulnerable amid Canada's English majority. The book is also about a young boy, Roch Carrier himself (the author), whose youthful worship of Richard was tempered by politics & personal life, & evolved into an entirely different sort of appreciation for an extraordinary man.

Download or read book Floralie Where Are You written by Roch Carrier and published by House of Anansi. This book was released on 1971 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "With the starkness of a medieval tale, this second novel takes us back in time to the wedding night of Floralie and Anthyme."

Download or read book The Longest Home Run written by Roch Carrier and published by CNIB. This book was released on 1993 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The longest home run in the history of baseball was hit by a girl.” So begins a baseball misadventure in the village of Ste. Justine. This time, a strange girl named Adeline shows up at the daisy field where Roch and his friends play baseball all summer. She proceeds to hit a towering home run…right through the window of the crankiest man in town. Adeline has other powers as well, which Roch and the boys discover at a magic show. But without the baseball, the game cannot go on. When Adeline literally disappears, who do you think has to get the ball back?

Download or read book Unpublished Documents Relating to the English Martyrs written by John Hungerford Pollen and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Study Guide to Roch Carrier s La Guerre Yes Sir written by Peter Carver and published by House of Anansi. This book was released on 1978 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Resignation and Resistance Two Elements of Qu b cit in Roch Carrier s La Guerre Yes Sir written by Jerome H. Bicknell and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book La Guerre Yes Sir written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vital, funny, moving and assured, La Guerre, Yes Sir! is a surrealist fable set in rural Quebec during WWI and one of the major achievements in Canadian fiction. Canadian Literature greeted its first appearance in these terms: It is the French-Canadian writer Roch Carrier who comes closest to the significance, power and artistry of Faulkner at his best . . . . He might well be able to do for French Canada what Faulkner did for the American South.

Download or read book Roch Carrier s La Guerre Trilogy written by Roch Carrier and published by House of Anansi. This book was released on 2013-08-21 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The A List edition of one of the major achievements in recent Quebec literature — Roch Carrier’s La Guerre trilogy is a vital, moving, and assured portrait of life in Quebec. This volume includes: La Guerre, Yes Sir! A surrealist fable set in rural Quebec during WWI. Canadian Literature greeted its first appearance in these terms: “It is the French-Canadian writer Roch Carrier who comes closest to the significance, power, and artistry of Faulkner at his best ... He might well be able to do for French Canada what Faulkner did for the American South." Floralie, Where Are You? In the second installment, Carrier reaches back to the wedding night of the Corriveau parents, whom we first meet in La Guerre, Yes Sir!. Once again, a single night expands until it becomes a world in itself. But this time it is a very different concoction, mingling desire and guilt, nightmare and fantasy, as Anthymo drives Floralie back to his village through the forest. Is It the Sun, Philibert? In the final installment, Young Philibert hitchhikes down to Montreal to make his fortune, and meets a different world. As he scrambles from job to job, he discovers a new Quebec — urban, industrial, and dedicated finally to the death of the person. In this moving trilogy, Roch Carrier’s savage vision comes across with great urgency and Sheila Fischman’s fluid translations sing with vivacity and grace.