| Title | : | Son of a Smaller Hero |
|---|---|---|
| Author | : | Mordecai Richler |
| Release | : | 1972-01-01 |
| Kind | : | ebook |
| Genre | : | Fiction & Literature, Books, Literary Fiction |
| Size | : | 825706 |
| 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. |
