St Urbains Horseman

Author : Mordecai Richler
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
ISBN 13 : 155199562X
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book St. Urbain's Horseman written by Mordecai Richler and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2010-12-17 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Mordecai Richler
Publisher : New Canadian Library
ISBN 13 : 9780771093401
Total Pages : 467 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book St. Urbain's Horseman written by Mordecai Richler and published by New Canadian Library. This book was released on 1985 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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. "From the Hardcover edition."

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Download or read book St. Urbain's Horseman written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Mordecai Richler
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0771073380
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book St. Urbain's Horseman written by Mordecai Richler and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2017-05-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Mordecai Richler
Publisher : Bantam Books
ISBN 13 : 9780553110784
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Saint Urbains Horseman written by Mordecai Richler and published by Bantam Books. This book was released on 1972-06-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : A. Bernard Knapp
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 131619406X
Total Pages : 2073 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Prehistory of the Bronze and Iron Age Mediterranean written by A. Bernard Knapp and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-12 with total page 2073 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cambridge Prehistory of the Bronze and Iron Age Mediterranean offers new insights into the material and social practices of many different Mediterranean peoples during the Bronze and Iron Ages, presenting in particular those features that both connect and distinguish them. Contributors discuss in depth a range of topics that motivate and structure Mediterranean archaeology today, including insularity and connectivity; mobility, migration, and colonization; hybridization and cultural encounters; materiality, memory, and identity; community and household; life and death; and ritual and ideology. The volume's broad coverage of different approaches and contemporary archaeological practices will help practitioners of Mediterranean archaeology to move the subject forward in new and dynamic ways. Together, the essays in this volume shed new light on the people, ideas, and materials that make up the world of Mediterranean archaeology today, beyond the borders that separate Europe, Africa, and the Middle East.

Author : Alan L. Berger
Publisher : Edwin Mellen Press
ISBN 13 : 9780773496446
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bearing Witness to the Holocaust, 1939-1989 written by Alan L. Berger and published by Edwin Mellen Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Survivor testimonies and philosophical responses to the Holocaust, testifying to the tenacity and self-renewal of the human spirit. Essays from the 1989 Scholar's Conference on the Holocaust and the Churches.

Author : Mordecai Richler
Publisher : Emblem Editions
ISBN 13 : 1551995603
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Joshua Then and Now written by Mordecai Richler and published by Emblem Editions. This book was released on 2010-12-31 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joshua Then and Now is about Joshua Shapiro today, and the Joshua he was. His father a boxer turned honest crook, his mother an erotic dancer whose greatest performance was at Joshua’s bar mitzvah, Joshua has overcome his inauspicious beginnings in the Jewish ghetto of Montreal to become a celebrated television writer and a successful journalist. But Joshua, now middle-aged, is not a happy man. Incapacitated by a freak accident, anguished by the disappearance of his WASP wife, and caught up in a sex scandal, Joshua is besieged by the press and tormented by the ghosts of his youth. Set in Montreal, the novel chronicles the rocky journey we all make between the countries of the past and the present. Raucous, opinionated, tender, Joshua Then and Now is a memorable excursion into Mordecai Richler's comic universe.

Author : Sander Govaerts
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ISBN 13 : 9781641893985
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book Armies and Ecosystems in Premodern Europe written by Sander Govaerts and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using the ecosystem concept as his starting point, the author examines the complex relationship between premodern armed forces and their environment at three levels: landscapes, living beings, and diseases. The study focuses on Europe's Meuse Region, well-known among historians of war as a battleground between France and Germany. By analyzing soldiers' long-term interactions with nature, this book engages with current debates about the ecological impact of the military, and provides new impetus for contemporary armed forces to make greater effort to reduce their environmental footprint.

Author : James Fenimore Cooper
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Total Pages : 0 pages
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