{"product_id":"0771073380-st-_urbains_horseman_penguin_modern_classics_edition","title":"St. Urbain's Horseman: Penguin Modern Classics Edition","description":"\n\u003cp\u003eProduct Description\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSt. Urbain’\u003cbr\u003es Horseman is a complex, moving, and wonderfully comic evocation of a generation consumed with guilt – 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 Jake’s 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 Horseman’s glorious return. Irreverent, deeply felt, as scathing in its critique of social mores as it is uproariously funny,\u003cbr\u003eSt. Urbain’\u003cbr\u003es Horseman confirms Mordecai Richler’s reputation as a pre-eminent observer of the hypocrisies and absurdities of modern life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The most brilliant and exciting new novel in years…Mordecai Richler has written a masterpiece.”\u003cbr\u003e–\u003cbr\u003eThe New Leader\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAbout the Author\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMordecai 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.\u003cbr\u003eRichler's many honours include the Giller Prize, two Governor General's Awards, and innumerable other awards for fiction, journalism, and screenwriting.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eCategories:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul class=\"category-tree\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLiterature \u0026amp; Fiction\u003cul class=\"category-tree\"\u003e\u003cli class=\"category-tree\"\u003eLiterary\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n","brand":"Emblem Editions","offers":[{"title":"Used - Like New","offer_id":45261727596734,"sku":"0771073380-2","price":19.47,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0640\/9689\/5166\/files\/71-GYLcxFzL.jpg?v=1754081454","url":"https:\/\/shop.sustainablebooks.com\/products\/0771073380-st-_urbains_horseman_penguin_modern_classics_edition","provider":"Sustainable Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}