"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 ...
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"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.
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VG- in VG- jacket. Please note description of condition below. Neither remainder nor ex-lib. Hardcover in bluish-green cloth, in grey horseman-illustrated jacket, 8vo. Prsumed 1st Canadian edition with no other printings listed. 467pp. + colophon. VG-to VG/VG-. Book has ffep excised somewhat raggedly along gutter. Otherwise NF with mild rubbing at spine ends of otherwise sharp, clean cloth; strong, square binding that somewhat stiffly favors several places within; clean, unmarked pages. Jacket has closed 1/2" tear and 1" diameter semi-circular crease (all internally taped) at lower front corner; softening and short tear lower spine end; occasional rubbing to rear panel with softening toward upper edge. Front colors and titles clean and bright. Jacket in Brodart. Small former price label lower corner front flap.
