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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... Paris , Jake Hersh , the hero of St. Urbain's Horseman , voicing an opinion Richler expressed in his essays , would sum up the predicament he and his crowd found themselves in : Wrong place , wrong time . Young too late , old too soon ...
... Paris late in 1950 , acknowledges in his memoir Getting Started that he didn't share the same literary ambition as friends like Richler , Mavis Gallant , and Brian Moore , but he remembers those days with a fondness he can barely ...
... Paris , there was Spain , more particularly the island of Ibiza , which offered very cheap wine and fewer distractions than Paris or London . It was in Spain that Mordecai Richler did most of the work on The Rotten People , a novel that ...