St. Urbain's Horseman St. Urbain's Horseman

St. Urbain's Horseman

    • 4.0 • 3 Ratings
    • $11.99
    • $11.99

Publisher Description

St. Urbains 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. Urbains Horseman confirms Mordecai Richler’s reputation as a pre-eminent observer of the hypocrisies and absurdities of modern life.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
1971
January 1
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
504
Pages
PUBLISHER
McClelland & Stewart
SELLER
Penguin Random House LLC
SIZE
1.5
MB

More Books Like This

The Constant Gardener The Constant Gardener
2005
Five Smooth Stones Five Smooth Stones
2009
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Tales of the Jazz Age The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Tales of the Jazz Age
2010
Tales of The Jazz Age Tales of The Jazz Age
2010
A Piece of the Sky is Missing A Piece of the Sky is Missing
2011
Moviola Moviola
2016

More Books by Mordecai Richler

Barney's Version Barney's Version
1997
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
1969
Joshua Then and Now Joshua Then and Now
1980
Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang
1975
The Incomparable Atuk The Incomparable Atuk
1989
The Street The Street
1985