A colony of Canadian and American writers and filmmakers, exiled by McCarthyist witch-hunts at home, find themselves in London, England, where they evolve a society every bit as merciless, destructive, and close-minded as that from which they have fled. The bonds of the group are strained when Norman Price, an academic turned hack writer, befriends an enigmatic German refugee. Ostracized by his colleagues, Norman soon perceives how easily conviction devolves into tyranny. Believing that "all alliances are discredited," he ...
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A colony of Canadian and American writers and filmmakers, exiled by McCarthyist witch-hunts at home, find themselves in London, England, where they evolve a society every bit as merciless, destructive, and close-minded as that from which they have fled. The bonds of the group are strained when Norman Price, an academic turned hack writer, befriends an enigmatic German refugee. Ostracized by his colleagues, Norman soon perceives how easily conviction devolves into tyranny. Believing that "all alliances are discredited," he enters a moral nightmare in which his choice of enemies is no longer clear. With relentless irony and biting accuracy, Mordecai Richler maps out a surreal territory of doubt, describing not only one man's personal dilemma but the moral condition of modern society. From the Paperback edition.
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Fine in Very Good jacket. Single date on copyright page. Early novel by the author of ST. URBAIN'S HORSEMAN. Book is fine and unmarked. Jacket is fine but price-clipped and with a small V chip to the bottom front panel. Still an attractive copy in its Mylar jacket cover, and scarce. Octavo.
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Good to very good. 1st Edition. 256pp. 12mo. Red cloth covered boards with gilt lettering on spine. Bumping to ends of spine with fading along bottom edge of boards. Previous owners name on front free endpaper, with crease from fold on back free endpaper. Clean tight text block. In illustrated dust jacket, not price clipped, rubbed and soiled, especially around edges and spine. Some chipping and small closed tears on edges with larger closed tear running up spine from bottom. good to very good A rare first edition of the third novel by the celebrated Canadian author, screen writer and essayist.