Author: Pagotto, BarbaraPublisher: Feltre, Italy
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
Son of a Smaller Hero : Mordecai Richler's First Montreal Novel
Author: Pagotto, BarbaraPublisher: Feltre, Italy
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
Son of a Smaller Hero
Author: Mordecai RichlerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canadian fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
Mordecai
Author: Charles ForanPublisher: Vintage Canada
ISBN: 0676979653
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 802
Book Description
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.
The Street
Author: Mordecai RichlerPublisher: New Canadian Library
ISBN: 1551995662
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
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.
Barney's Version
Author: Mordecai RichlerPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307813479
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 517
Book Description
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 . . .
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
Author: Mordecai RichlerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jewish fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
The Apprenticeship Of Duddy Kravitz
Author: Mordecai RichlerPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0671028472
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
From his third generation Jewish immigrant family in Montreal, Duddy learns about life in this unforgettable human comedy.
Son of a Smaller Hero
Author: Mordecai RichlerPublisher: Emblem Editions
ISBN: 0771073372
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Young Noah Adler, passionate, ruthlessly idealistic, is the prodigal son of Montreal’ s Jewish ghetto. Finding tradition in league with self-delusion, he attempts to shatter the ghetto’s illusory walls by entering the foreign territory of the goyim. But here, freedom and self-determination continue to elude him. Eventually, Noah comes to recognize “justice and safety and a kind of felicity” in a world he cannot—entirely—leave behind. Richler’s superb account of Noah’s struggle to scale the walls of the ghetto overflows with rich comic satire. Son of a Smaller Hero is a compassionate, penetrating account of the nature of belonging, told with the savage realism for which Mordecai Richler’s fiction is celebrated.
Jacob Two-Two and the Dinosaur
Author: Mordecai RichlerPublisher: Tundra Books
ISBN: 0887769268
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
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: Mordecai Richler