 First edition | |
| Author | Mordecai Richler |
|---|---|
| Cover artist | Harold Town |
| Country | Canada |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | McClelland & Stewart (Canada) Weidenfeld & Nicolson (UK) Alfred A. Knopf (US) |
Publication date | 1971 |
| Media type | |
| Pages | 462 pages (first edition) |
| Preceded by | Cocksure |
| Followed by | Joshua Then and Now |
St. Urbain's Horseman is the seventh novel by Canadian author Mordecai Richler. First published in 1971 [1] [2] by McClelland & Stewart, it won the Governor General's Award for 1971.
The novel is set in London and Montreal during the late 1960s. The protagonist, Jake Hersh, first appeared in Richler's fourth novel, The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz , as a schoolmate of the title character. Now, almost twenty years later, Hersh is a moderately successful film director, married with three children, who has become embroiled in a sordid sex scandal. With his world crumbling around him, Jake continues to be obsessed with the mystery of his long-lost cousin and idol Joey, an adventurer, Nazi-hunter and Spanish Civil War veteran.
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