Joshua Then And Now [SIGNED CANADIAN 1ST/1ST]

Mordecai Richler

ISBN 10: 0771074921 / ISBN 13: 9780771074929

Published by McClelland and Stewart Limited, Toronto, ON, Canada, 1980

About this Item

A near fine copy (fine but for minor bumping to 3 tips) in blue boards with gold lettering on the spine in a VERY GOOD, unclipped dust jacket showing a price of $16.95 and a closed tear of 1.5 cm on spine. SIGNED - NOT INSCRIBED - BY MORDECAI RICHLER ON THE HALF TITLE PAGE. This is a first edition, first printing and is a tight, clean copy with no other markings. Slightest of tanning to DJ. Brodard protected. Seller Inventory # 001471

Bibliographic Details

Title: Joshua Then And Now [SIGNED CANADIAN 1ST/1ST]

Publisher: McClelland and Stewart Limited, Toronto, ON, Canada

Publication Date: 1980

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: 1st Edition

About this title

Synopsis:

Joshua Then and Now is about Joshua Shapiro today, and the Joshua he was. His father a boxer turned honest crook, his mother an erotic dancer whose greatest performance was at Joshua’s bar mitzvah, Joshua has overcome his inauspicious beginnings in the Jewish ghetto of Montreal to become a celebrated television writer and a successful journalist. But Joshua, now middle-aged, is not a happy man. Incapacitated by a freak accident, anguished by the disappearance of his WASP wife, and caught up in a sex scandal, Joshua is besieged by the press and tormented by the ghosts of his youth. Set in Montreal, the novel chronicles the rocky journey we all make between the countries of the past and the present. Raucous, opinionated, tender, Joshua Then and Now is a memorable excursion into Mordecai Richler's comic universe.