The Incomparable Atuk (New Canadian Library)
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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.
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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.
The Incomparable Atuk (New Canadian Library)
The Incomparable Atuk (New Canadian Library),Mordecai Richler,Peter Gzowski,New Canadian Library,0771099738,Fiction,Fiction - General,Literary,Richler, Mordecai - Prose & Criticism,Fiction / Literary
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