The Great Comic Book Heroes and Other Essays

About this book

A novelist who has set the highest stands for his profession, Mordecai Richler brings to essay writing the same exacting demand for quality the same well-honed wit, biting satire, and masterful prose style. And the best of it all can be found in this volume, representing selections from his two published collections, Shovelling Trouble and Hunting Tigers Under Glass. In an easy mingling of the journalistic and the literary. Richler informs and delights his readers. Whether he is musing on the comic strips or movies, putting James Bond in his place, or mocking Canadian provincialism, he is always engaging, always engrossing, and consistently at the top of his form.