Home Sweet Home: My Canadian Album
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
With a razor-sharp wit and an unflinching eye, Mordecai Richler — one of Canada's most celebrated and provocative literary voices — presents a sweeping personal portrait of a nation he both loved and loved to lampoon. Home Sweet Home: My Canadian Album is a collection of essays that chronicles Richler's observations on Canadian life, culture, politics, and identity, drawing from his experiences as a Montreal-born expatriate who spent years in London before returning to the country that shaped him. The pieces range from sharp political commentary to warmly sardonic memoir, painting a vivid and often hilarious picture of a country perpetually wrestling with its own sense of self. Richler's prose is characteristically bold — unsparing in its criticism yet deeply affectionate in its attachment — and this collection stands as a significant document of mid-20th-century Canadian cultural life. He argues, with characteristic irreverence, that Canada's greatest struggle is not with its neighbours but with its own ambivalence, its colonial hangovers, and its politely concealed contradictions. For readers who relish intelligent, acerbic non-fiction with a distinctly North American sensibility, this album is an essential and endlessly entertaining companion — leaving one to wonder whether Richler's Canada has changed all that much since he wrote it.
Author: Mordecai Richler
Format: Hardback
Published: 1984, Alfred A. Knopf
Genre: Essays
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
With a razor-sharp wit and an unflinching eye, Mordecai Richler — one of Canada's most celebrated and provocative literary voices — presents a sweeping personal portrait of a nation he both loved and loved to lampoon. Home Sweet Home: My Canadian Album is a collection of essays that chronicles Richler's observations on Canadian life, culture, politics, and identity, drawing from his experiences as a Montreal-born expatriate who spent years in London before returning to the country that shaped him. The pieces range from sharp political commentary to warmly sardonic memoir, painting a vivid and often hilarious picture of a country perpetually wrestling with its own sense of self. Richler's prose is characteristically bold — unsparing in its criticism yet deeply affectionate in its attachment — and this collection stands as a significant document of mid-20th-century Canadian cultural life. He argues, with characteristic irreverence, that Canada's greatest struggle is not with its neighbours but with its own ambivalence, its colonial hangovers, and its politely concealed contradictions. For readers who relish intelligent, acerbic non-fiction with a distinctly North American sensibility, this album is an essential and endlessly entertaining companion — leaving one to wonder whether Richler's Canada has changed all that much since he wrote it.