Son of a smaller hero a novel
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- ISBN: 9781551995618 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 1551995611 (electronic bk.)
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1 online resource. - Edition: 1st Emblem ed.
- Publisher: Toronto : Emblem Editions, 2002.
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Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record. |
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Subject: | Jews -- Québec (Province) -- Montréal -- Fiction Juifs -- Québec (Province) -- Montréal -- Romans, nouvelles, etc |
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Mordecai Richler was born in Montreal, Quebec, in 1931. Raised there in the working-class Jewish neighbourhood around St. Urbain Street, he attended Sir George Williams College (now a part of Concordia University). In 1951 he left Canada for Europe, settling in London, England, in 1954. Eighteen years later, he moved back to Montreal.
Novelist and journalist, screenwriter and editor, Richler, one of our most acclaimed writers, spent much of his career chronicling, celebrating, and criticizing the Montreal and the Canada of his youth. Whether the settings of his fiction are St. Urbain Street or European capitals, his major characters never forsake the Montreal world that shaped them. His most frequent voice is that of the satirist, rendering an honest account of his times with care and humour.
Richlerâs many honours include the Giller Prize, two Governor Generalâs Awards, and innumerable other awards for fiction, journalism, and screenwriting. He died in Montreal in 2001.