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Barney’s Version: Penguin Modern Classics Edition
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Ebullient and perverse, thrice married, Barney Panofsky has always clung to two cherished beliefs: life is absurd and nobody truly ever understands anybody else. But when his sworn enemy publicly states that Barney is a wife abuser, an intellectual fraud and probably a murderer, he is driven to write his own memoirs. Charged with comic energy and a wicked disregard for any pieties whatsoever, Barney’s Version is a brilliant portrait of a man whom Mordecai Richler has made uniquely memorable for all time. It is also an unforgettable love story, a story about family and the riches of friendship.
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| Weight | 0.37 kg |
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| Dimensions | 2.8 × 13.21 × 20.32 cm |
| PubliCanadation City/Country | Canada |
| by | |
| Format | Paperback |
| Language | |
| Pages | 432 |
| Publisher | |
| Year Published | 2016-10-11 |
| Imprint | |
| ISBN 10 | 0345812239 |
| About The Author | Mordecai Richler was born in Montreal, Quebec, in 1931. Raised there in the working-class Jewish neighbourhood around St. Urbain Street, he attended Sir George Williams College (now a part of Concordia University). In 1951 he left Canada for Europe, settling in London, England, in 1954. Eighteen years later, he moved back to Montreal.Novelist and journalist, screenwriter and editor, Richler, one of our most acclaimed writers, spent much of his career chronicling, celebrating, and criticizing the Montreal and the Canada of his youth. Whether the settings of his fiction are St. Urbain Street or European capitals, his major characters never forsake the Montreal world that shaped them. His most frequent voice is that of the satirist, rendering an honest account of his times with care and humour.Richler’s many honours include the Giller Prize, two Governor General’s Awards, and innumerable other awards for fiction, journalism, and screenwriting. He died in Montreal in 2001. |
"A feast of nonstop storytelling, and arguably Richler's funniest book yet." —Maclean's "[A] triumph . . . at once hilarious, poignant, satiric and elegiac. . . . Barney's 30-year marriage to Miriam, their mutual love, and the two sons and one daughter they produce . . . are the novel's heart and soul. . . . Barney's Version has an embarrassment of riches . . . woven here into a wantonly generous, seamless whole." —The Globe and Mail "I couldn't put it down. . . . There is no other writer among us at the moment who can so deftly deploy pure dialogue to create such rich atmosphere of period and place. . . . In Barney's Version, the women are his finest achievement. This is wholly a wonderful novel. . . . By turns gripping, hilarious, ridiculous and even poignant." —The Montreal Gazette "A rollicking novel laden with rue, a self- portrait of a creative personality who never found a creative outlet he could respect, a paean to the pleasures and perils of drink, a celebration of ice hockey and tap dancing, a lament for a multicultural Montreal now torn and depressed by Quebeçois separatism and a murder mystery with an uproarious solution." —New Yorker |
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