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In St. Urbain's Horseman, the brashness of youth, which propelled Mordecai Richler's early novels like The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, reckons with the weight of maturity and history. Jake Hersh, an expatriate film director in England, driven by dissatisfaction with his moderately successful life, dreams of a Nazi-hunter alter ego and winds up in the dock of the Old Bailey, passively enmeshed in scandal. Never less than exuberant and hilarious--this is Richler after all--St. Urbain's Horseman is equally romantic and melancholic, and one of the great Canadian novels.
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“The most brilliant and exciting new novel in years…Mordecai Richler has written a masterpiece.”
–The New Leader
From the Hardcover edition.
–The New Leader
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3.0 out of 5 stars
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This review is from: St. Urbain's Horseman (Paperback)
The center of the novel is a crisis point in the life of Jake Hersh, a film director of modest success and a man disgraced. A Canadian living in London going through a mid-life crunch triggered by an unfulfilled professional life and intimidated by his mortality. Jack fails to navigate successfully into middle age as he gets involved with the repellent Harry Stein, a petty criminal, and his cousin Joey, his alter ego, who Jake recreates in the image of his needs. Joey is the avenging horseman of Jake's impotent dreams.In St. Urbain's Horseman we have a medley of paranoid Jewish Montrealers struggling in a gentile world. This novel is very rich and complex, teetering on being pretentious but salvaged by fine characterizations and hilarious prose. This story has a slow sometime confusing beginning that progresses into a clearer and more interesting ending. I am not a dedicated fan of this type of writing.
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Outstanding,
By Stephen Langford (Toronto, Ontario) - See all my reviews
This review is from: St. Urbain's Horseman (Paperback)
A remarkable book, clever, interesting, and so well written that I often stopped just to marvel at how entertained I was. You'll be glad you got it.
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My first Richler,
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This review is from: St. Urbain's Horseman (Paperback)
This was the first Richler book I've read and I enjoyed it very much.
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