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9780771099731

The Incomparable Atuk

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  • ISBN13:

    9780771099731

  • ISBN10:

    0771099738

  • Edition: Reprint
  • Format: Trade Book
  • Copyright: 1995-10-01
  • Publisher: New Canadian Library
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Summary

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.

Author Biography

<b>Mordecai Richler </b>was born in Montreal in 1931. The author of ten successful novels, numerous screenplays, and several books of non-fiction, his novel, <i>Barney's Version,</i> was an acclaimed bestseller and the winner of The Giller Prize, the Stephen Leacock Award for Humour, the QSpell Award, and the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Novel in the Caribbean and Canada region. Richler also won two Governor General’s Awards and was shortlisted twice for the Booker Prize. <br><br>Mordecai Richler died in Montreal in July 2001.

Table of Contents

What You Dare to Dream, Dare to Do
1(42)
Eskimo Tycoon
43(112)
This Was the Noblest Canadian of Them All
155(24)
Afterword 179

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