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Son of a Smaller Hero (New Canadian Library S.) - Softcover

Richler, Mordecai

 
9780771099700: Son of a Smaller Hero (New Canadian Library S.)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0771099703 ISBN 13: 9780771099700
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart Inc., 1991

Synopsis

Young Noah Adler, passionate, ruthlessly idealistic, is the prodigal son of Montreal’s Jewish ghetto. Finding tradition in league with self-delusion, he attempts to shatter the ghetto’s illusory walls by entering the foreign territory of the goyim. But here, freedom and self-determination continue to elude him. Eventually, Noah comes to recognize “justice and safety and a kind of felicity” in a world he cannot – entirely – leave behind. Richler’s superb account of Noah’s struggle to scale the walls of the ghetto overflows with rich comic satire. Son of a Smaller Hero is a compassionate, penetrating account of the nature of belonging, told with the savage realism for which Mordecai Richler’s fiction is celebrated.

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About the Author

Mordecai Richler was born in Montreal in 1931. The author of ten successful novels, numerous screenplays, and several books of non-fiction, his novel, Barney's Version, was an acclaimed bestseller and the winner of The Giller Prize, the Stephen Leacock Award for Humour, the QSpell Award, and the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Novel in the Caribbean and Canada region. Richler also won two Governor General’s Awards and was shortlisted twice for the Booker Prize.

Mordecai Richler died in Montreal in July 2001.


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Publisher
McClelland & Stewart Inc.
Publication date
1991
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0771099703
ISBN 13 
9780771099700
Binding
Mass Market Paperback
Number of pages
208