| Son of a Smaller Hero: Penguin Modern Classics Edition Contributor(s): Richler, Mordecai (Author) |
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ISBN: 0771073372 ISBN-13: 9780771073373 Publisher: Emblem Editions OUR PRICE: $17.96 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Humorous - General - Fiction | Cultural Heritage |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Series: New Canadian Library |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 5.2" W x 8" (0.30 lbs) 208 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |