Mordecai Richler

Author : Mordecai Richler
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 517 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2011-12-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307813473

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Barney's Version by Mordecai Richler Pdf

Charged with comic energy and a steely disregard for any pieties whatsoever, Barney's Version is a major Richler novel, the most personal and feeling book of a long and distinguished career. Told in the first person, it gives us the life (and what a life!) of Barney Panofsky--whose trashy TV company, Totally Useless Productions, has made him a small fortune; whose three wives include a martyred feminist icon, a quintessential JCP (Jewish-Canadian Princess), and the incomparable Miriam, the perfect wife, lover, and mother--alas, now married to another man; who recalls with nostalgia and pain his young manhood in the Paris of the early fifties, and his lifelong passion for wine, women, and the Montreal Canadiens; who either did or didn't murder his best friend, Boogie, after discovering him in bed with The Second Mrs. Panofsky; whose satirical eye for the idiocies of today's Quebec separatists (as well as for every other kind of political correctness) manages to offend his entire acquaintanceship (and will soon be offending readers everywhere); and whose memory--though not his bile--is, in his sixty-seventh year, definitely slipping . . .

Author : Reinhold Kramer
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 525 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780773574779

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Mordecai Richler by Reinhold Kramer Pdf

"I didn't want the biography to end. Mordecai Richler seemed so vividly alive...From now on, nobody can write about Richler without reading this book." The Globe and Mail

Author : Mordecai Richler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Jewish fiction
ISBN : UCSD:31822012751277

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The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz by Mordecai Richler Pdf

Author : Mordecai Richler
Publisher : New Canadian Library
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2010-12-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781551995663

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The Street by Mordecai Richler Pdf

In this beguiling collection of short stories and memoirs, first published in 1969, Mordecai Richler looks back on his childhood in Montreal, recapturing the lively panorama of St. Urbain Street: the refugees from Europe with their unexpected sophistication and snobbery; the catastrophic day when there was an article about St. Urbain Street in Time; Tansky’s Cigar and Soda with its “beat-up brown phonebooth” used for “private calls”; and tips on sex from Duddy Kravitz. Overflowing with humour, nostalgia, and wisdom, The Street is a brilliant introduction to Richler’s lifelong love-affair with St. Urbain Street and its inhabitants.

Author : Mordecai Richler
Publisher : Emblem Editions
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2010-12-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781551995601

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Joshua Then and Now by Mordecai Richler Pdf

Joshua Then and Now is about Joshua Shapiro today, and the Joshua he was. His father a boxer turned honest crook, his mother an erotic dancer whose greatest performance was at Joshua’s bar mitzvah, Joshua has overcome his inauspicious beginnings in the Jewish ghetto of Montreal to become a celebrated television writer and a successful journalist. But Joshua, now middle-aged, is not a happy man. Incapacitated by a freak accident, anguished by the disappearance of his WASP wife, and caught up in a sex scandal, Joshua is besieged by the press and tormented by the ghosts of his youth. Set in Montreal, the novel chronicles the rocky journey we all make between the countries of the past and the present. Raucous, opinionated, tender, Joshua Then and Now is a memorable excursion into Mordecai Richler's comic universe.

Author : Mordecai Richler
Publisher : New Canadian Library
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1989-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UCLA:L0064213416

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The Incomparable Atuk by Mordecai Richler Pdf

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.

Author : Mordecai Richler
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X002049369

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Oh Canada! Oh Quebec! by Mordecai Richler Pdf

Humorous account of Quebec's language obsessed separatist movement.

Author : Mordecai Richler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1954
Category : Canadians
ISBN : UOM:39015002717208

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The Acrobats by Mordecai Richler Pdf

Author : Charles Foran
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 802 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2011-07-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780676979657

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Mordecai by Charles Foran Pdf

Foran's book is the first major biography with access to family letters and archives: the definitive, detailed, intimate portrait of Mordecai Richler, the lion of Canadian literature, and the turbulent, changing times that nurtured him. It is also an extraordinary love story that lasted half a century. Mordecai Richler won multiple Governor General's Literary Awards, the Giller Prize, the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, among others, as well as many awards for his children's books. He also wrote Oscar-nominated screenplays. His influence was larger than life in Canada and abroad. In Mordecai, award-winning novelist and journalist Charles Foran brings to the page the richness of Mordecai's life as young bohemian, irreverent writer, passionate and controversial Canadian, loyal friend and deeply romantic lover. He explores Mordecai's distraught childhood, and gives us the "portrait of a marriage"—the lifelong love affair with Florence, with Mordecai as beloved father of five. The portrait is alive and intimate—warts and all.

Author : M. A. Richards
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Africa
ISBN : OCLC:1301797228

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Choice of Enemies by M. A. Richards Pdf

The first in a series of espionage novels featuring Nathan Monsarrat, a retired Central Intelligence Agency deep cover operative with an extensive knowledge of black gold and expertise in weapons. women, and Benjamins. Now a dean at a small college in Massachusetts, Nathan is visited by his former Agency mentor and given a blunt choice: either travel to Afrcia to lay the groundwork for a coup d'état, or condemn the woman who saved his life to a brutal execution. Out of options, he returns to the Niger Delta where he discovers the Agency plans to reward his services with an oil soaked grave.

Author : Mordecai Richler
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2010-10-22
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780307367273

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Belling the Cat by Mordecai Richler Pdf

"More than forty years of scribble, scribble, scribble, and I have been sued only once. . ." But this collection of essays is no less a pleasure to read for all that. Mordecai Richler is an exuberant essayist, with a combative wit and sharp eye, regularly offending some, endearing himself mightily to others, and always hugely entertaining. Like all great satirists, he is passionate about the world in which we live; it's that appetite for life and friendship, his love of sanity and common sense as much as his hatred of sacred cows, that lies at the heart of this irresistible book.

Author : Mordecai Richler
Publisher : Emblem Editions
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2010-12-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781551995649

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The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz by Mordecai Richler Pdf

The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz is the novel that established Mordecai Richler as one of the world’s best comic writers. Growing up in the heart of Montreal’s Jewish ghetto, Duddy Kravitz is obsessed with his grandfather’s saying, “A man without land is nothing.” In his relentless pursuit of property and his drive to become a somebody, he will wheel and deal, he will swindle and forge, he will even try making movies. And in spite of the setbacks he suffers, the sacrifices he must make along the way, Duddy never loses faith that his dream is worth the price he must pay. This blistering satire traces the eventful coming-of-age of a cynical dreamer. Amoral, inventive, ruthless, and scheming, Duddy Kravitz is one of the most magnetic anti-heroes in literature, a man who learns the hard way that dreams are never exactly what they seem, even when they do come true.

Author : Mordecai Richler
Publisher : Tundra Books
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2009-09-08
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780887769269

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Jacob Two-Two and the Dinosaur by Mordecai Richler Pdf

When his parents bring a little green lizard home from their vacation in Kenya, Jacob Two-Two is thrilled. But as the days pass, he realizes that Dippy isn’t just an ordinary lizard at all. In fact, it becomes obvious to Jacob that Dippy’s not so little either. As Dippy grows bigger and bigger, he begins to attract some very big attention from some very important people. Before Jacob realizes, he is on the run from the entire government of Canada – and with a full-grown dinosaur!

Author : Ada Craniford
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2006-01-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 059581607X

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Mordecai Richler by Ada Craniford Pdf

Richler RevealedWickedly amusing and deceptively familiar, Mordecai Richler has been praised, reviled, and-many times-misunderstood.Intrigued by Richler's defiant denial that his personal history plays any part in his fiction, we unveil the life-altering events he semi-discloses. Amazed at his brazen plundering of past and present literary works, we watch as he reworks the stories and poems of other writers, for purposes of his own. Carefully researched and entertainingly presented, these revelations will forever alter the way you read Richler's novels, and think about his life.

Author : Mordecai Richler
Publisher : Tundra Books
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2009-09-17
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781770490734

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Jacob Two-Two-'s First Spy Case by Mordecai Richler Pdf

Just as Jacob Two-Two settles into his new life in Canada, things are turned upside down! First, Jacob gets a new neighbor, who does double duty as a spy; then he gets a new principal, who turns out to be mean and nasty; and then, unknowingly, he makes an enemy – but who could it be? Jacob Two-Two returns in this new adventure that takes him into the fascinating world of spycraft!