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Barney Panofsky smokes too many cigars, drinks too much whiskey, and is obsessed with two things: the Montreal Canadiens hockey team and his ex-wife Miriam. An acquaintance from his youthful years in Paris, Terry McIver, is about to publish his autobiography.
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- Author
- Mordecai Richler
- First published
- 1997
- Pages
- 417
- Publisher
- Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC Audio), Vintage Books USA, Albin Michel
- Editions
- 31
- Language
- Spanish, Dutch, French, Russian
- ISBN
- 9788439703730
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Mordecai Richler was a Canadian writer. His best known works are *The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz* (1959) and *Barney's Version* (1997). He is also well known for the Jacob Two-Two fantasy series for children. In addition to his fiction, Richler wrote numerous essays about the Jewish community in Canada, and about Canadian and Quebec nationalism. Richler's *Oh Canada! Oh Quebec!* (1992), a collection of essays about nationalism and anti-Semitism, generated considerable controversy. *-- Wikipedia*
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