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Barney's Version by Mordecai Richler
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
Barney Panofsky--Canadian expat, wily lover of women, writer, television producer, raconteur--is finally putting pen to paper so he can rebut the charges about him made in his rival's autobiography. Whether it's ranting about his bohemian misadventures during the 1950's in Paris, his tumultuous three ma ...Show more
Barney's Version: A Novel by Mordecai Richler
Category: Fiction
Before his brain began to shrink, Barney Panofsky clung to two cherished beliefs. Life was absurd, and nobody ever truly understood any-body else. Even his friends tend to agree that Barney is 'a wife-abuser, an intellectual fraud, a purveyor of pap, a drunk with a pen-chant for violence and probably a ...Show more
Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang by Dusan Petricic (Illustrator); Mordecai Richler
Category: Fiction | Series: Jacob Two-Two Ser.
Poor Jacob Two-Two, only two plus two plus two years old and already a prisoner of The Hooded Fang. What had he done to deserve such terrible punishment? Why, the worst crime of all - insulting a grown-up.
Solomon Gursky Was Here by Mordecai Richler
Category: Fiction
This comic novel won the 1990 Commonwealth Writers Prize and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Moses Berger decides to write a history of the wealthy Gursky family in Canada, and traces it back to the mysterious Solomon's grandfather - a forger, Arctic explorer and self-styled rabbi.
Son of a Smaller Hero by Mordecai Richler
Category: Judaica | Series: New Canadian Library S.
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 ...Show more
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