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St. Urbain's Horseman is the seventh novel by Canadian author Mordecai Richler. First published in 1971 by McClelland & Stewart, it won the Governor General's Award for 1971. Plot and setting. The novel is set in London and Montreal during the late 1960s.
St. Urbain's Horseman: With David Julian Hirsh, Elliott Gould, Andrea Martin, Cindy Busby. Based on the novel by Mordechai Richler -Winner of the 1971 Governor General's Award - this is the story of Jake, a film director of modest success and a man in disgrace.
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- 2007-09-19
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Long considered one of Mordecai Richler’s most beloved and acclaimed novels, St. Urbain’s Horseman has now been adapted into a high-profile two-part CBC drama.
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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.
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.
- Ebook
Thirty-seven-year-old Jake’s alter ego is his cousin Joey, a legend in their Canadian childhood neighbourhood. Nazi-hunter, adventurer and hero of the Spanish Civil War, Joey is the avenging horseman of Jake’s impotent dreams.
St. Urbain's Horseman by Mordecai Richler - The 5974th greatest book of all time. The novel revolves around a Canadian filmmaker living in London, grappling with a midlife crisis, a complex web of familial relationships, and the burden of his cultural identity.
