Son of a Smaller Hero
Author(s): Mordecai Richler
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.
Product Information
General Fields
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- : McClelland & Stewart Inc.
- : McClelland & Stewart Inc.
- : 0.118
- : 30 December 1991
- : 178mm X 111mm X 12mm
- : Canada
- : books
Special Fields
- : 208
- : Paperback
- : Mordecai Richler