Son of a Smaller Hero: Penguin Modern Classics Edition by Richler, Mordecai

Son of a Smaller Hero: Penguin Modern Classics Edition (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780771073373)

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Son of a Smaller Hero: Penguin Modern Classics Edition by Richler, Mordecai

Son of a Smaller Hero: Penguin Modern Classics Edition

$19.95
Son of a Smaller Hero: Penguin Modern Classics Edition by Richler, Mordecai

Son of a Smaller Hero: Penguin Modern Classics Edition

$19.95
Format: Paperback
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Young Noah Adler, passionate, ruthlessly idealistic, is the prodigal son of Montreal' s Jewish ghetto. Finding tradition in league with self-delusion, he attempts to shatter the ghetto's illusory walls by entering the foreign territory of the goyim. But here, freedom and self-determination continue to elude him. Eventually, Noah comes to recognize "justice and safety and a kind of felicity" in a world he cannot--entirely--leave behind. Richler's superb account of Noah's struggle to scale the walls of the ghetto overflows with rich comic satire. Son of a Smaller Hero is a compassionate, penetrating account of the nature of belonging, told with the savage realism for which Mordecai Richler's fiction is celebrated.

Author: Mordecai Richler
ISBN-10: 0771073372
ISBN-13: 9780771073373
Publisher: Emblem Editions
Language: English
Published: 05/02/2017
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.20w x 0.40d
By Mordecai Richler
By Mordecai Richler
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Mordecai Richler was born in Montreal, Quebec, in 1931. Raised there in the working-class Jewish neighbourhood around St. Urbain Street, he attended Sir George Williams College (now a part of Concordia University). In 1951 he left Canada for Europe, settling in London, England, in 1954. Eighteen years later, he moved back to Montreal.

Novelist and journalist, screenwriter and editor, Richler, one of our most acclaimed writers, spent much of his career chronicling, celebrating, and criticizing the Montreal and the Canada of his youth. Whether the settings of his fiction are St. Urbain Street or European capitals, his major characters never forsake the Montreal world that shaped them. His most frequent voice is that of the satirist, rendering an honest account of his times with care and humour.

Richler's many honours include the Giller Prize, two Governor General's Awards, and innumerable other awards for fiction, journalism, and screenwriting. He died in Montreal in 2001.

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