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Oct 01, 1989 | ISBN 9780771099731 Buy *This format is not eligible to earn points towards the Reader Rewards program
Dec 31, 2010 | ISBN 9781551995656 Buy
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Oct 01, 1989 | ISBN 9780771099731
Dec 31, 2010 | ISBN 9781551995656
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 – and hazardous – schemes.Richler’s hilarious and devastating satire lampoons the self-deceptions of “the Canadian identity” and derides the hypocrisy of a nation that seeks cultural independence by slavishly pursuing the American dream.
Mordecai Richler was born in Montreal in 1931. Among his most successful novels are The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, St. Urbain’s Horseman, Solomon Gursky Was Here, and Barney’s Version. He died in 2001.
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