Description
A modestly successful film director, faithful husband, and chronic self-reproacher, Jake Hersh lives with a guilt he can’t outrun—until his imagination summons Joey, a Nazi-hunter and Spanish Civil War hero who rides as the avenging horseman of Jake’s thwarted dreams. When Jake is drawn into a scandalous trial in London, his public predicament forces a private reckoning, turning the courtroom into a stage where his ordinary life is measured against the daring life he wishes he’d lived. Mordecai Richler’s sharp, comic storytelling blends adventure fantasy with moral inquiry, probing themes of responsibility, self-deception, and the stories we tell ourselves to survive. With its witty edge and psychologically astute satire, the novel captures the uneasy distance between heroism and everyday cowardice—then dares you to ask which one is real.
Available Editions
paperback
Knopf
Published Jan 1, 1971
467 pages
ISBN: 0394444736
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Details
First Published
1966
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for St. Urbain's Horseman by Mordecai Richler.