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Mordecai Richler
Reinhold Kramer
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Description for Mordecai Richler
Paperback. "I didn't want the biography to end. Mordecai Richler seemed so vividly alive..From now on, nobody can write about Richler without reading this book." The Globe and Mail Series: Arts Insights. Num Pages: 498 pages, 15 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBC; BGL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 157 x 28. Weight in Grams: 757.
Based on never-before published material from the Richler archives as well as interviews with family members, friends, and acquaintances, Mordecai Richler: Leaving St Urbain shows how Richler consistently mined his remarkable life for material for his novels. Beginning with the early clashes with his grandfather over Orthodox Judaism, and exposing the reasons behind his life-long quarrel with his mother, Kramer follows Richler as he flees to Ibiza and Paris, where he counted himself as one of the avant-garde who ushered in the 1960s. His successes abroad gave him the opportunity to remain in England and leave novel-writing behind - but ... Read more
Based on never-before published material from the Richler archives as well as interviews with family members, friends, and acquaintances, Mordecai Richler: Leaving St Urbain shows how Richler consistently mined his remarkable life for material for his novels. Beginning with the early clashes with his grandfather over Orthodox Judaism, and exposing the reasons behind his life-long quarrel with his mother, Kramer follows Richler as he flees to Ibiza and Paris, where he counted himself as one of the avant-garde who ushered in the 1960s. His successes abroad gave him the opportunity to remain in England and leave novel-writing behind - but ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press Canada
Number of pages
498
Condition
New
Series
Arts Insights
Number of Pages
498
Place of Publication
Montreal, Canada
ISBN
9780773537422
SKU
V9780773537422
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About Reinhold Kramer
Reinhold Kramer is professor of English at Brandon University and the award-winning author, with Tom Mitchell, of Walk Towards the Gallows: The Tragedy of Hilda Blake, Hanged 1899 and Scatology and Civility in the English-Canadian Novel.
Reviews for Mordecai Richler
"The scope and thoroughness of Reinhold Kramer's engrossing new biography is evidence, if any is still needed, of Richler's importance. Kramer has struck the fine balance between academic rigour and popular biography, representing Richler's life with the epic narrative scope it deserves." Montreal Review of Books "Reinhold Kramer made prodigious use of old correspondence and two unpublished early novels to ... Read more