Solomon Gursky Was Here
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
A sweeping work of Canadian literary fiction, Solomon Gursky Was Here chronicles the obsessive decades-long quest of Moses Berger, a hard-drinking writer consumed by his fixation on the mythical and elusive Solomon Gursky, a member of a powerful and scandalous Jewish family whose influence seems to stretch across centuries of Canadian history. Mordecai Richler constructs a darkly comic and satirical epic that moves between the doomed 1845 Arctic expedition of Sir John Franklin and the glittering, corrupt world of twentieth-century Montreal high society, weaving together legend, family saga, and national myth. With razor-sharp wit and an irreverent eye, Richler skewers the pretensions of the Canadian establishment while presenting a richly layered portrait of Jewish immigrant ambition, identity, and reinvention. The novel argues, with gleeful subversion, that the true history of a nation is written not in official records but in the outrageous, half-buried stories of its most audacious outsiders. Widely regarded as one of the great Canadian novels, it stands as a masterwork of satirical storytelling, both hilarious and profound in its ambitions.
Author: Mordecai Richler
Format: Hardback
Published: 1990, Alfred A. Knopf
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
A sweeping work of Canadian literary fiction, Solomon Gursky Was Here chronicles the obsessive decades-long quest of Moses Berger, a hard-drinking writer consumed by his fixation on the mythical and elusive Solomon Gursky, a member of a powerful and scandalous Jewish family whose influence seems to stretch across centuries of Canadian history. Mordecai Richler constructs a darkly comic and satirical epic that moves between the doomed 1845 Arctic expedition of Sir John Franklin and the glittering, corrupt world of twentieth-century Montreal high society, weaving together legend, family saga, and national myth. With razor-sharp wit and an irreverent eye, Richler skewers the pretensions of the Canadian establishment while presenting a richly layered portrait of Jewish immigrant ambition, identity, and reinvention. The novel argues, with gleeful subversion, that the true history of a nation is written not in official records but in the outrageous, half-buried stories of its most audacious outsiders. Widely regarded as one of the great Canadian novels, it stands as a masterwork of satirical storytelling, both hilarious and profound in its ambitions.