The Incomparable Atuk by Mordecai Richler

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The Incomparable Atuk

by Mordecai Richler

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The Incomparable Atuk

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1963

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'What would happen in Canada if full sovereignty were invoked and the southern border sealed tight against American mass culture – if the air waves were jammed, if all our comic books were embargoed, if only the purest and most uplifting of American cultural commodities were allowed entry? Native industries would take over, obviously. Cut off from American junk, Canada would have to produce on her own.'
Richard H. Rovere, Macleans, Nov. 5, 1960

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For my father

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Twentyman's dreadful equipment was unloaded at a dock in Montreal on a cold wet Wednesday.

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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.

(retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:01 -0400)

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