- Journalists, Fiction, Jewish men, Jews
Joshua Shapiro travels from Montreal to London, Ibiza and Hollywood, searching for the truth about himself and his generation.
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Prestige, classical in form, spare and cool.
- unpretentiousprestige
- classical in formformally daring
- sparerichly built
- cooloverwhelming
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Mordecai Richler
- First published
- 1980
- Pages
- 445
- Publisher
- A. A. Knopf : distributed by Random House, Quinze, Seal Books, McClellamd & Stewart
- Editions
- 17
- Language
- French, English
- ISBN
- 9780770420352
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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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