Solomon Gursky Was Here - Softcover

Richler, Mordecai

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140152989 ISBN 13: 9780140152982

Publisher: Penguin, 1991

Synopsis

WINNER OF THE 1990 COMMONWEALTH WRITERS PRIZE, SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 1990

Since the age of eleven Moses Berger has been obsessed with the Gursky clan, an insanely wealthy, profoundly seductive family of Jewish-Canadian descent. Now a 52-year-old alcoholic boigrapher, Berger is desperately trying to chronicle the stories of their lives, especially that of the mysterious Solomon Gursky, who may or may not have died in a plane crash.

A rich, irreverent and exuberant comic masterpiece from the author of The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz and St Urbain's Horseman.

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Review:

"The wit, depth and wickedness of this resonant novel suggest a happy synthesis of Dickens, Malcolm Lowry and Philip Roth... This is a very fine work" (The Times)

"A rich, rude, eccentric saga about the Gursky dynasty that crossbreeds Jewish and Canadian myths and is full of splendid comic detail" (Observer)

"Vast, chaotic, vigorously imagined and ambitiously freighted" (Independent)

"A major work of rich complexity" (Sunday Telegraph)

"It is passionate, it has a thickness of living about it, and it is made to blaze every now and then with an uncommonly fine bit of worldly wisdom, memorably delivered out of the side of the mouth" (Guardian)

Book Description:

‘A rich, rude, eccentric saga about the Gursky dynasty that crossbreeds Jewish and Canadian myths and is full of splendid comic detail’ – Observer

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0140152989
• ISBN 13: 9780140152982
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 432