Barney's Version: A Novel

ISBN-13: 9780099554462 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 416 str.

Mordecai Richler

Opis

The author of 'Solomon Gursky Was Here' presents the hilarious, devious and touching story of an unruly life. Houdini-like, Barney slides from crisis to success, his outrageous exploits culminating in a murder charge he goes on denying to the end.

Recenzje

Barney's Version belongs in the very front ranks of Jewish comic novels, a crowded field to begin with...Barney's Version is a rambling social satire, a breathless romp through the second half of the 20th century, and finally the celebration of a complicated and sensual life that is, if not well-lived, then certainly lived to the fullest Washington Post

O autorze

Mordecai Richler was an acclaimed Canadian novelist and essayist born in Montreal in 1931. He won the Commonwealth Prize, the Paris Review Humour Prize, was twice shortlisted for the Booker Prize for his novels Solomon Gursky Was Here and St. Urbain's Horseman, and was nominated for an Oscar for his screenplay of The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz. He died in 2001.