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

Richler, Mordecai

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0771099703 ISBN 13: 9780771099700

Publisher: New Canadian Library, 1989

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.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

“A violent book...excellent writing.”
–The Globe and Mail

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: New Canadian Library
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0771099703
• ISBN 13: 9780771099700
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 208