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...URBAIN'S HORSEMAN by Mordecai Richler. 467 pages. Knopf...
Jewish Batman. If anything, the book is too rich in such details, almost bursting its seams with worked-up mots and comic turns. But it is strung together in the end by the quasi-poetic image of Jake's mysterious cousin Joey, the horseman of the title. Joey is a movie stuntman, baseball player and soldier of fortune whose vaguely charted wanderings seem to take in all the barricades, from Madrid in 1938 to Jerusalem in 1967. Jake, convinced that Joey is now in Paraguay pursuing the infamous Dr. Mengele of Auschwitz, also sees him as a kind...
...Horseman offers the secondary pleasure of watching a writer just as he is hitting full stride. Richler, who was born in Montreal, is one of Canadian culture's leading unrepentant truants. He has written five previous novels. Their themes range from sociopolitical consciousness (The Acrobats) through pungently realistic picaresques of Montreal Jewish life (The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz) to outrageous expatriate satire (Cocksure). Finally, at 40, Richler has brought all these strains together. The result is a resounding war cry, love song and apologia for the fundamentally decent man who can fumble through the depravity of the times...
...Keeneland Fall Sales. Not that his breeding was bad, but he was small and had a split hoof and a bad case of worms. A Venezuelan agent bought him for a paltry $1,200 and shipped him off to Caracas, where he was sold to Millionaire Horseman Pedro Baptista for $6,000. Nursed through his early infirmities, Cañonero grew into a strapping three-year-old with an exceptionally long (30 ft.) stride. When Venezuela's top rider, Gustavo Avila, was put in the saddle last March, Cañonero reeled off three straight wins. Convinced that...
...virtual slave plantation in the 20th century. Cummins takes all kinds of errants and turns them into white-clad "rankers" who work or perish. Toiling from dawn to dusk, they move in a long line across the fields, supervised by a horseman in khaki and five unmounted "shotguns" (guards) who "push" the serfs along. At each corner of the field stands another guard, armed with a high-powered rifle. All the guards are convicts, the toughest at Cummins. Hated by rankers, the trusties are picked for meanness in order to keep them alive off duty. They are killers, armed robbers...