Will Roch Carrier relive his childhood trauma?
by JULIET WATERS I have the feeling that in his long career as a writer, Roch Carrier must have listened to a lot of interviewers’ anecdotes about humiliating clothes they were forced to wear as a child. But I don’t get the feeling that Carrier, now in his early 60s and best known for his short story “The Hockey Sweater,” has ever gotten tired of commiserating with them. Nor do I get the feeling that Carrier, whose award-winning adult novels have received high praise and lofty comparisons to Gabriel Garcia Marquez, is at all sour that he is virtually unknown for anything other than “The Hockey Sweater.” “Of course I’d like to be that famous for all my works–and it will happen… later,” Carrier says with an obvious gleam of mock arrogance in his startling, oversized eyes, which seem to shine with an impenetrable shield of innocence. “But the ‘Hockey Sweater,’ it’s a gift,” he says (referring to the success of the story, not the actual sweater). “This story is being read by kids, grand
