Henry Kreisel, The Rich Man (Calgary: Red Deer Press, 2006, first published 1948)

THERE'S NOTHING unusual about Jacob Grossman, the protagonist of Henry Kreisel's novel, 771e Rich Man, originally published in 1948. Grossman is a 53-year-old presser in a Toronto clothing factory, the same job he's held since his arrival from Galicia 33 years earlier. He's "a short, narrow-shouldered, pot-bellied man. His face was round and of a reddish colour, a bit flabby and wrinkled, and there was a large bald spot on the pate of his head." (12) In Grossman's imperfect English, "I am a ord'nary man ..." (47)

In one way, though, Grossman is far from ordinary when the novel opens. By ...

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