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While researching a biography of Solomon Gursky, the blacksheep scion of an influential Jewish family in Montreal, Moses Berger becomes obsessed with uncovering the secret and momentous life of his subject
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"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)
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"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)
‘A rich, rude, eccentric saga about the Gursky dynasty that crossbreeds Jewish and Canadian myths and is full of splendid comic detail’ – Observer
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- PublisherRandom House Inc
- Publication date1990
- ISBN 10 0394539958
- ISBN 13 9780394539959
- BindingHardcover
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