Pre-numbered label used for registration.

hardback
472pp
published, 1971

Cover photo shown is from the November 1989 edition.

FROM THE PUBLISHER
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 CRITICS
New York Times Book Review
What a rich pleasure this novel is! Its humor, whether tart or tender, is splendid. All its characters are real and rendered with the deepest compassion. Its prose moves with grace. Its grasp of truth is absolutely secure.

Thomas Lask - The New York Times
...a work that is nastily witty, scatalogically outrageous, sometimes poignantly moving and deeply serious in a defensively light-hearted way.... He can write page after page of crackling and neat satire.

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