St. Urbain's Horseman - Softcover

Mordecai Richler; Guy Vanderhaeghe

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0771099746 ISBN 13: 9780771099748

Publisher: McClelland and Stewart, 1991

Synopsis

Book by Mordecai (afterword by Guy Vanderhaeghe)

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From the Inside Flap:

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.

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.
From the Trade Paperback edition.

About this edition

• Publisher: McClelland and Stewart
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0771099746
• ISBN 13: 9780771099748
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 472