St. Urbain's horseman / Mordecai Richler.

By:

Richler, Mordecai, 1931-2001

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Penguin modern classicsPublication details: Toronto : Penguin Random House, 2017.Edition: Penguin modern classics edDescription: 490 p. ; 21 cmISBN:

9780771073380 (trade pbk.)

Other title:

Saint Urbain's horseman

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Canadian fiction.

DDC classification:

813/.5/4

Summary: "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 publisher.

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Classics	West Grey Ayton Branch Shelves	Fiction	Fic Richl (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		32107000322953

Total holds: 0

First published in Canada by McClelland & Stewart, 1971.

"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 publisher.

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