Son of a Smaller Hero
Author | : Mordecai Richler |
Publisher | : Emblem Editions |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2017-05-02 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780771073373 |
ISBN-13 | : 0771073372 |
Rating | : 4/5 (372 Downloads) |
Download or read book Son of a Smaller Hero written by Mordecai Richler and published by Emblem Editions. This book was released on 2017-05-02 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.