Résumé: In "St. Urbain's Horseman", the brashness of youth, which propelled Mordecai Richler's early novels like "The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz", reckons with the weight of maturity and history. Jake Hersh, an expatriate film director in England, driven by dissatisfaction with his moderately successful life, dreams of a Nazi-hunter alter ego and winds up in the dock of the Old Bailey, passively enmeshed in scandal. Never less than exuberant and hilarious--this is Richler after all--"St. Urbain's Horseman" is equally romantic and melancholic, and one of the great Canadian novels.