The incomparable Atuk
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- ISBN: 9781551995656 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 1551995654 (electronic bk.)
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1 online resource (142 p.) - Publisher: Toronto : McClelland and Stewart, 1989.
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Subject: | Poets, Canadian -- Fiction Eskimos -- Fiction |
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- Random House, Inc.
Transplanted to Toronto from his native Baffin Island, Atuk the poet is an unlikely overnight success. Eagerly adapting to a society steeped in pretension, bigotry, and greed, Atuk soon abandons the literary life in favour of more lucrative â and hazardous â schemes.
Richlerâs hilarious and devastating satire lampoons the self-deceptions of âthe Canadian identityâ and derides the hypocrisy of a nation that seeks cultural independence by slavishly pursuing the American dream.