The Incomparable Atuk
Mordecai Richler
McClelland & Stewart
<p>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.<br><br>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.<br><br><i>From the Paperback edition.</i></br></br></br></br></p>