Description
Set against the shifting streets of Montreal, this raucous, opinionated, and deeply tender novel follows Joshua as he moves—sometimes stumbling, sometimes defiantly—between the “then” of memory and the “now” of lived experience. Across a series of encounters and reckonings, Joshua confronts the difficult distinctions that life demands: identity and belonging, faith and doubt, love and loss, and the stories we tell to survive. Richler’s sharp, conversational style—equal parts comic and compassionate—turns personal history into a wider meditation on how we carry the past into the present. Ultimately, the book traces a journey toward withdrawal and quiet, as Joshua, marked by what he has endured, seeks a way to live when the world’s categories no longer hold.
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paperback
Seal Books, McClellamd & Stewart
Published Jan 1, 1980
370 pages
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First Published
1980
Language
eng
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