Son Of A Smaller Hero

By Richler, Mordecai ISBN: 9780771075124 format: Paperback pages: 256 publisher: McClelland & Stewart pub. date: 2002-04-03 $7.99

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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. 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.

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