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A rich collection drawn from the nearly thirty books of Mordecai Richler, featuring his writings on Montreal, New York, and London.
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"It's the air of hustle and betrayal that gives Richler's fiction its nervous, horny hum." -- James Woolcott
About the Author
Mordecai Richler was born in Montreal in 1931. One of Canada's greatest novelists, he was also a prolific and lively essayist, humorist, and critic. Among the many awards he received over his career were the Giller Prize, the Commonwealth Writer's Prize, and the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour. Richler received teh Order of Canada in 1999. He died in Montreal in July 2001.
Aislin (Terry Mosher), editorial cartoonist for the Montreal Gazette for more than thiry years, was a longtime friend of Richler's and shared the writer's affectionate attachment to their native city. He was named an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2003.
Adam Gopnik is an award-winning staff writer with The New Yorker and author of Paris to the Moon and Through the Children's Gate. As a young child in Montreal, he lived across the street from Mordecai Richler.
Author and editor Jonathan Webb has worked at McClelland & Stewart, the first Canadian publisher of Mordecai Richler's works. He is currently writing a book on the journalists who covered the Vietnam War.
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- PublisherDa Capo Pr
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 0786720026
- ISBN 13 9780786720026
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages432
- EditorWebb Jonathan
- IllustratorAislin
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Hard cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Aislin (illustrator). In Very Good+ condition with Very Good+ Dustjacket. Mordecai Richler, like many of the characters he invented, was shaped by the tight, supportive Montreal neighborhood where he grew up. He in turn created an imaginary neighborhood one block over from the real one. Richler lived and breathed these streets even after he left them. He savored their sights, sounds, and smells and then described them in more than two dozen books over a period of some fifty years. The half-dozen streets west of St. Lawrence, between St. Viateur and Laurier, formed the heart of the Jewish working-class district in the 1940s and '50s. Here you could find Wilensky's, where a precocious boy once revealed to his classmates the condom he carried in his back pocket just in case. There is Jack and Moe's babershop and Schacter's Cigar & Soda, where Richler's father and his friends gathered to listen to the hockey game or play gin rummy. These few streets provided everything--from spiritual guidance to temptations of the flesh and a cast of characters as rough and complicated as the neighborhood they came from, which spring from the pages of his books with an intensity that reader's couldn't ignore. Mordecai Richler Was Here features selections from Richler's most memorable writings, The Apprenticeship of Diddy, Kravitz, Barney's Version, and Joshua Then and Now, among others, along with photographs and illustrations by politcal cartoonist Aislin. It offers an intimate look at the streets that shaped, and were shaped by, one of North America's greatest writers. As Richler himself said, I do feel forever rooted in Montreal's St. Urbain Street. That was my time, my place, and I have elected myself to get it right. Seller Inventory # SKU2010024884
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