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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... called Richler's third novel , A Choice of Enemies , “ a retrogressive step . " Richler's work , Cohen said , capping the essay off , was showing " no sign of improvement . " Curiously , he also complained that " Richler heroines have ...
... called me back . A few days after my column ran , I received a two - page , sin- gle - spaced letter in which Solway called me a number of polysyllabic names . No one and nothing could have hurt him more , he said . He ques- tioned ...
... called Shakespeare lazy ; Tolstoy couldn't bear Shakespeare either . Mark Twain couldn't abide Henry James and neither could H.L. Mencken , who called James " an idiot , and a Boston idiot to boot . " Evelyn Waugh said , “ James Joyce ...