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Book Synopsis St. Urbain's Horseman by : Mordecai Richler
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.
Book Synopsis St. Urbain's Horseman by : Mordecai Richler
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."
Book Synopsis Saint Urbains Horseman by : Mordecai Richler
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:
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.
Book Synopsis Solomon Gursky was Here by : Mordecai Richler
Download or read book Solomon Gursky was Here written by Mordecai Richler and published by Random House. This book was released on 1991 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comic novel won the 1990 Commonwealth Writers Prize and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Moses Berger decides to write a history of the wealthy Gursky family in Canada, and traces it back to the mysterious Solomon's grandfather - a forger, Arctic explorer and self-styled rabbi.
Book Synopsis St. Urbain's Horseman by : Mordecai Richler
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.
Book Synopsis The Cambridge Prehistory of the Bronze and Iron Age Mediterranean by : A. Bernard Knapp
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 1677 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.
Book Synopsis St. Urbains's Horseman by : Mordecai Richler
Download or read book St. Urbains's Horseman written by Mordecai Richler and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis St. Urbain's horsemen, etc. (Second printing.). by : Mordecai Richler
Download or read book St. Urbain's horsemen, etc. (Second printing.). written by Mordecai Richler and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Joshua Then and Now by : Mordecai Richler
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.
Book Synopsis The Mediterranean Medina by : AA. VV.
Download or read book The Mediterranean Medina written by AA. VV. and published by Gangemi Editore spa. This book was released on 2016-01-03T00:00:00+01:00 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume collects the proceedings of the International Seminar The Mediterranean Medina, that took place in the School of Architecture at Pescara from 17th to 19th of June 2004.
Book Synopsis Armies and Ecosystems in Premodern Europe by : Sander Govaerts
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.
Book Synopsis The Apprenticeship Of Duddy Kravitz by : Mordecai Richler
Download or read book The Apprenticeship Of Duddy Kravitz written by Mordecai Richler and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1999-03 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From his third generation Jewish immigrant family in Montreal, Duddy learns about life in this unforgettable human comedy.
Book Synopsis Nabokov and the Novel by : Ellen Pifer
Download or read book Nabokov and the Novel written by Ellen Pifer and published by Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ellen Pifer challenges the widely held assumption that Nabokov is a writer more interested in literary games than in living human beings. She demonstrates how Nabokov arranges the details of his fiction to explore human psychology and moral truth, and she argues her case with style. Focusing on the most highly wrought and aesthetically self-conscious of Nabokov's novels, Pifer shows how he deploys artifice to bring into bold relief what is real. In her chapter on King, Queen, Knave she reveals Nabokov's radical distinction between genuine and simulated human existence. She shows how, in Invitation to a Beheading and Bend Sinister, he contrasts "grotesque design" of collectiveexistence with the individul'sradiant internal life. In Despair,Lolita, and Pale Fire Nabokov'sparody of the double illuminatesthe unique source of human consciousness. In Ada, as in the earlier Laughter in the Dark, the inhuman nature of aesthetic bliss qualifies its delights. Making clearthe moral perception of realitythat lies behind Nabokov's artisticstrategies, Pifer offers a newassessment of Nabokov's fictionand of his contribution to the tradition of the novel.
Book Synopsis Barney's Version by : Mordecai Richler
Download or read book Barney's Version written by Mordecai Richler and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-12-21 with total page 517 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charged with comic energy and a steely disregard for any pieties whatsoever, Barney's Version is a major Richler novel, the most personal and feeling book of a long and distinguished career. Told in the first person, it gives us the life (and what a life!) of Barney Panofsky--whose trashy TV company, Totally Useless Productions, has made him a small fortune; whose three wives include a martyred feminist icon, a quintessential JCP (Jewish-Canadian Princess), and the incomparable Miriam, the perfect wife, lover, and mother--alas, now married to another man; who recalls with nostalgia and pain his young manhood in the Paris of the early fifties, and his lifelong passion for wine, women, and the Montreal Canadiens; who either did or didn't murder his best friend, Boogie, after discovering him in bed with The Second Mrs. Panofsky; whose satirical eye for the idiocies of today's Quebec separatists (as well as for every other kind of political correctness) manages to offend his entire acquaintanceship (and will soon be offending readers everywhere); and whose memory--though not his bile--is, in his sixty-seventh year, definitely slipping . . .
Book Synopsis Tocqueville in the Ottoman Empire by : Ariel Salzmann
Download or read book Tocqueville in the Ottoman Empire written by Ariel Salzmann and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2004 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on archival research, this work examines the Ottoman ancien regime. The author argues that the success of the regime was due to the articulation of a complex financial network revolving around central state elite investments and an Istanbul-based and supervised banking system.
Book Synopsis Texts and Contexts of the Oldest Runic Inscriptions by : Tineke Looijenga
Download or read book Texts and Contexts of the Oldest Runic Inscriptions written by Tineke Looijenga and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This source publication of all older runic inscriptions provides fascinating information about the origin and development of runic writing, together with the archaeological and historical contexts of the objects. Moreover elaborate readings and interpretations are given of the runic texts.
