Product Description
St. Urbainâ
s Horseman is a complex, moving, and wonderfully comic evocation of a generation consumed with guilt â guilt at not joining every battle, at not healing every wound. Thirty-seven-year-old Jake Hersh is a film director of modest success, a faithful husband, and a man in disgrace. His alter ego is his cousin Joey, a legend in their childhood neighbourhood in Montreal. Nazi-hunter, adventurer, and hero of the Spanish Civil War, Joey is the avenging horseman of Jakeâs impotent dreams. When Jake becomes embroiled in a scandalous trial in London, England, he puts his own unadventurous life on trial as well, finding it desperately wanting as he steadfastly longs for the Horsemanâs glorious return. Irreverent, deeply felt, as scathing in its critique of social mores as it is uproariously funny,
St. Urbainâ
s Horseman confirms Mordecai Richlerâs reputation as a pre-eminent observer of the hypocrisies and absurdities of modern life.
Review
âThe most brilliant and exciting new novel in yearsâ¦Mordecai Richler has written a masterpiece.â
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The New Leader
About the Author
Mordecai Richler was born in 1931 and raised in the working-class Jewish neighbourhood around St. Urbain Street, attending Sir George Williams College (now a part of Concordia University). As a novelist, journalist, screenwriter, and editor, Richler spent much of his career chronicling, celebrating, and criticizing the Montreal and the Canada of his youth. Whether the settings of his fiction are St. Urbain Street or European capitals, his major characters never forsake the Montreal world that shaped them. His most frequent voice is that of the satirist, rendering an honest account of his times with care and humour.
Richler's many honours include the Giller Prize, two Governor General's Awards, and innumerable other awards for fiction, journalism, and screenwriting.
Categories:
- Literature & Fiction
- Literary
Publisher : Emblem Editions
Author : Richler, Mordecai
Language : English
Published :2017-05-02
Number Of Pages : 496
Binding : paperback
ISBN-10 : 0771073380
ISBN-13 : 9780771073380
Item weight : 0.88 lb
Dimensions : 1.18 in x 5.28 in x 8.03 in
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