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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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.
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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New York, Sir Hyman, Urbain Street, French Canadian, Park Avenue, Solomon Gursky, Barney's Version, Boy Wonder, Lou Caplan, Old One, Uncle Benjy, Bette Dolan, Issy Hersh, Lady Olivia, Pinky's Squealer, The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, Jeanne Mance, Moey Hanover, Mount Royal, Sir Harold Nicolson, The Sleeper, Young Israel Synagogue, Ben Weider, Bob Cohen, Fletcher's Field New!
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New York, Sir Hyman, Urbain Street, French Canadian, Park Avenue, Solomon Gursky, Barney's Version, Boy Wonder, Lou Caplan, Old One, Uncle Benjy, Bette Dolan, Issy Hersh, Lady Olivia, Pinky's Squealer, The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, Jeanne Mance, Moey Hanover, Mount Royal, Sir Harold Nicolson, The Sleeper, Young Israel Synagogue, Ben Weider, Bob Cohen, Fletcher's Field New!
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