Mordecai & Me: An Appreciation of a KindRed Deer Press, 2003 - Всего страниц: 336 ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Awards Bronze Award - Autobiography/Memoir Quebec Writer's Federation Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction Winner (2004) Canadian Jewish Book of the Year Award Winner (2004) Canadian Jewish Book Award for Memoir/Biography Drainie Taylor Biography Prize Nomination Alberta Trade Nonfiction Book of the Year Nomination Mordecai and Me: An Appreciation of a Kind is the story of one writer's obsession with another. In this "really unauthorized biography," Joel Yanofsky, a veteran Montreal book reviewer, literary journalist and novelist, tracks the elusive legend of Mordecai Richler in the year following his death. This insightful and quirky quest leads Yanofsky to consult - though pester may be more like it - a rabbi, a shrink and a dream analyst. What starts out as a literary appreciation turns into a literary stalking, propelled as much by envy as admiration, irreverence as affection, confession as critical judgment. A Montrealer himself and a journalist by trade, Joel Yanofsky has covered the Canadian literary scene, interviewing and reviewing Richler, while taking the measure of the city that he believes was destroyed culturally by the reign of separatist governments. Yanofsky cuts through the recent public adoration, as well as through Richler's own carefully protected persona, to reveal the depth and contradictions hidden beneath. |
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... Americans hungering for recognition and its rewards , terrified of failure . " Later on he would defy Canadian literary ... American of Canadian writers . Raised in an orthodox Jewish home , Richler grew up keeping the Sabbath , eating ...
... America needs to worry about . What Makes Sammy Run ? works as both a dark satire and an apology . It is Schulberg's nod ... American Jewish upper - middle - class : an accomplished , assimilated , left - of - centre Jew . The son of a ...
... American culture . " Richler might have put it more directly : do we really need to be loved ? That was the question he was posing when he wrote about Jews . His answer was self - evident . In his mocking review of The Jewish Community ...