St. Urbain's Horseman - Softcover

Richler, Mordecai

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0771093403 ISBN 13: 9780771093401

Publisher: New Canadian Library, 1971

Synopsis

St. Urbain’s 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, St. Urbain’s Horseman confirms Mordecai Richler’s reputation as a pre-eminent observer of the hypocrisies and absurdities of modern life.
From the Hardcover edition.

About this title

Book Description:

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Mordecai Richler's uproariously funny tale of guilt, middle-aged marriages, and Jewish family ritual

About the Author:

Mordecai Richler was an acclaimed Canadian novelist and essayist born in Montreal in 1931. He won the Commonwealth Prize, the Paris Review Humour Prize, was twice shortlisted for the Booker Prize for his novels Solomon Gursky Was Here and St. Urbain's Horseman, and was nominated for an Oscar for his screenplay of The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz. He died in 2001.

About this edition

• Publisher: New Canadian Library
• Publication date: 1971
• ISBN 10: 0771093403
• ISBN 13: 9780771093401
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback