St Urbain's Horseman - Brossura

Richler, Mordecai

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0099858509 ISBN 13: 9780099858508

Casa editrice: Vintage, 1992

Riassunto

“What a rich pleasure this novel is... Its satire is deft and delightful: the trendy London world, failed middle-aged marriages, Jewish family ritual, the whimsical workings of the law, hustlers in business and communications, and Jewish mother at whom even Sophie Portnoy might cringe – all are depicted devastatingly, yet engagingly. The stuff of life, the joy and terror alike, surges through St. Urbain's Horseman” New York Times

Long considered one of Canadian novelist Mordecai Richler’s most beloved and acclaimed novels, St. Urbain’s Horseman is a complex, moving, and wonderfully comic evocation of a generation consumed with guilt, set in 1960s London and Montreal.

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, 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 was the book that confirmed Mordecai Richler’s reputation as a pre-eminent observer of the hypocrisies and absurdities of modern life.

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Descrizione del libro:

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Mordecai Richler's uproariously funny tale of guilt, middle-aged marriages, and Jewish family ritual

L'autore:

Mordecai Richler was an acclaimed Canadian novelist and essayist born in Montreal in 1931. He won the Commonwealth Prize, the Paris Review Humour Prize, was twice shortlisted for the Booker Prize for his novels Solomon Gursky Was Here and St. Urbain's Horseman, and was nominated for an Oscar for his screenplay of The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz. He died in 2001.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Vintage
• Data di pubblicazione: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0099858509
• ISBN 13: 9780099858508
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 480