"Moses Berger est encore enfant quand il entend pour la première fois parler de Solomon Gursky.
Moses Berger decides to write a history of the Gursky family and becomes obsessed with the evasive Solomon. He follows the family from Victorian London to the wastes of Canada and to the fleshpots of London and Oxford.
Moses Berger is very young when he first hears the name that will obsess him and drive him on a quest across Canada and Europe. His life becomes consumed with...
Now a 52-year-old alcoholic biographer, Berger is desperately trying to chronicle the stories of their lives, especially that of the mysterious Solomon Gursky, who may or may not have died in a plane crash.
Or caught Gypsy Rose Lee stripping at the World's Fair. Hymie suffered from that sour old man's delusion that anybody who had come after him was born too late. He was, in our parlance, a bit of a drag. “No,” I said.
Irreverent, deeply felt, as scathing in its critique of social mores as it is uproariously funny, St. Urbain’s Horseman confirms Mordecai Richler’s reputation as a pre-eminent observer of the hypocrisies and absurdities of modern life.
Solomon Gursky war hier: Roman
"Solomon Gursky è stato qui" è stato pubblicato per la prima volta nel 1989.
Solomon Gursky war hier: Roman
Chung Lee, the Chinese he had kidnapped in Calgary, returned to his homeland and quickly acquired a reputation as a vehement anti-Westerner. Years later he rose to high office in the board of trade of the People's Republic.
Solomon Gursky war hier: Roman