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In his youth he was the scourge of Fletcher's Field High School. As an ambitious adolescent, Duddy Kravitz had countless schemes up his sleeve including making films and buying land. Believing that a man without land is a nobody, Duddy sets out to make himself a somebody.
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"Duddy Kravitz sits alone in its urbanity, energy, relevance, direction and raw talent."-"Toronto Star" "It burgeons with its special talent and vulgar vitality."-"Chicago Tribune" "Richler İis one of North America's most powerful novelists."-"Washington Times" "Richler has been praised highly for his clear-eyed vision and his realistic style. This novel will confirm that estimate... the total effect is brash and blatant as a sports car rally - and as suggestive of power."-"New York Times Book Review" "There can be no doubt of İRichler's prodigal talent."-"Times Literary Supplement" "From the Trade Paperback edition."
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Mordecai Richler (1931-2001) was a Canadian author, scriptwriter, and essayist. Born and raised in Montreal, Quebec, in his early years he lived and wrote in England but returned to Canada in 1972. He was the author of ten novels, including Barney's Version (1997), Solomon Gursky Was Here (1989), Cocksure (1968), and The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1959), as well as numerous screenplays, essays, children's books, and several works of non-fiction.
Ann-Marie MacDonald is a writer, playwright, and actor. Her first novel, Fall on Your Knees, won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book, and was selected for Oprah's Book Club. Her second novel, The Way the Crow Flies, won the Canadian Booksellers Association Libris Award. She lives in Toronto.
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- PublisherPenguin
- Publication date1973
- ISBN 10 0140021795
- ISBN 13 9780140021790
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- Number of pages320
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Book Description Mass Market Paperback. Very Good+ to Near Fine in Wraps: shows indications of very careful use: very light wear to the extremities; the mildest rubbing to the wrapper covers; the expected light tanning to the text pages, due to aging; the binding is square and secure; the text is clean. Free of creases to the panels. Free of creases to the backstrip. Free of creased or dog-eared pages in the text. Free of any underlining, hi-lighting or marginalia or marks in the text. Free of any ownership names, dates, addresses, notations, inscriptions, stamps, plates, or labels. A handsome copy, structurally sound and tightly bound, showing light wear only. If no longer 'fresh', remains close to 'As New'. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 12mo. (7 x 4.35 x 0.7 inches). 316 pages. Language: English. Weight: 6.5 ounces. First Edition Thus (1964) , Fourteenth Printing (1980). The hardcover edition was first published in 1959. Mass Market Paperback. Mordecai Richler (1931 2001) was a Canadian writer, best known for The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1959) and Barney's Version (1997). His 1970 novel St. Urbain's Horseman and 1989 novel Solomon Gursky Was Here were shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. He wrote repeatedly about the Anglophone community of Montreal and especially about his former neighbourhood, portraying it in multiple novels, including Richler published his fourth novel, The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, in 1959. The book featured a frequent Richler theme: Jewish life in the 1930s and 40s in the neighbourhood of Montreal east of Mount Royal Park on and about St. Urbain Street and Saint Laurent Boulevard (known colloquially as "The Main"). Richler wrote of the neighbourhood and its people, chronicling the hardships and disabilities they faced as a Jewish minority: "To a middle-class stranger, it is true, one street would have seemed as squalid as the next. On each corner a cigar store, a grocery, and a fruit man. Outside staircases everywhere. Winding ones, wooden ones, rusty and risky ones. Here a prized lot of grass splendidly barbered, there a spitefully weedy patch. An endless repetition of precious peeling balconies and waste lots making the occasional gap here and there." First Edition Thus (1964) , Fourteenth Printing (1980). The hardcover edition was first published in 1959. Seller Inventory # 55030
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: As New. Like New - May Have Minor Shelf Wear To Edges. - For More Information On Condition. Please See All Photos. - From Mordecai Richler, One Of Our Greatest Satirists, Comes One Of Literature's Most Delightful Characters, Duddy Kravitz -- In A Novel That Belongs In The Pantheon Of Seminal Twentieth Century Books. Duddy -- The Third Generation Of A Jewish Immigrant Family In Montreal -- Is Combative, Amoral, Scheming, A Liar, And Totally Hilarious. From His Street Days Tormenting Teachers At The Jewish Academy To His Time Hustling Four Jobs At Once In A Grand Plan To "Be Somebody," Duddy Learns About Living -- And The Lesson Is An Outrageous Roller-Coaster Ride Through The Human Comedy. As Richler Turns His Blistering Commentary On Love, Money, And Politics, The Apprenticeship Of Duddy Kravitz Becomes A Lesson For Us All.In Laughter And In Life. Seller Inventory # 005257
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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Rare hardcover as issued without DJ- Pictorial front cover- Unmarked except for digit 02 written on inside front cover- From Mordecai Richler, one of our greatest satirists, comes one of literature's most delightful characters, Duddy Kravitz -- in a novel that belongs in the pantheon of seminal twentieth century books. Duddy -- the third generation of a Jewish immigrant family in Montreal -- is combative, amoral, scheming, a liar, and totally hilarious. From his street days tormenting teachers at the Jewish academy to his time hustling four jobs at once in a grand plan to "be somebody," Duddy learns about living -- and the lesson is an outrageous roller-coaster ride through the human comedy. As Richler turns his blistering commentary on love, money, and politics, The Apprenticeship Of Duddy Kravitz becomes a lesson for us all.in laughter and in life. Seller Inventory # 010332
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