Mordecai Richler
Mordecai Richler was born in Montreal in 1931. The author of ten successful novels, numerous screenplays, and several books of non-fiction, his novel, Barney's Version, was an acclaimed bestseller and the winner of The Giller Prize, the Stephen Leacock Award for Humour, the QSpell Award, and the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Novel in the Caribbean and Canada region. Richler also won two Governor General’s Awards and was shortlisted twice for the Booker Prize.
Mordecai Richler died in Montreal in July 2001.
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Dispatches from the Sporting Life
Trade Paperback | 320 pages | Vintage Canada | Sports & Recreation; Humor - Essays
978-0-676-97478-2 (0-676-97478-3)
May 27, 2003 | $22.95
The first book to be set in the new Richler typeface, commissioned by Random House of Canada Limited and Jack Rabinovitch in memory of Mordecai.
Mordecai Richler’s final book pays homage to his personal heroes and celebrates a writer’s love of sport with his trademark irascibility, humour and acuity.
Even while writing...
Written by Mordecai Richler
Trade Paperback | 320 pages | Vintage Canada | Sports & Recreation; Humor - Essays
978-0-676-97478-2 (0-676-97478-3)
May 27, 2003 | $22.95
The first book to be set in the new Richler typeface, commissioned by Random House of Canada Limited and Jack Rabinovitch in memory of Mordecai.
Mordecai Richler’s final book pays homage to his personal heroes and celebrates a writer’s love of sport with his trademark irascibility, humour and acuity.
Even while writing...
On Snooker
Trade Paperback | 224 pages | Vintage Canada | Sports & Recreation; Sports & Recreation - Essays
978-0-676-97373-0 (0-676-97373-6)
June 25, 2002 | $19.95
From his youthful days as a poolroom hustler, playing truant from Baron Byng High School, Mordecai Richler remained a snooker devotee. Here, in his inimitable style, he delves into that eccentric world with pith and perception. Outrageously funny, passionate and thoroughly researched on snooker tables from Montreal to Dublin, On Snooker...
Written by Mordecai Richler
Trade Paperback | 224 pages | Vintage Canada | Sports & Recreation; Sports & Recreation - Essays
978-0-676-97373-0 (0-676-97373-6)
June 25, 2002 | $19.95
From his youthful days as a poolroom hustler, playing truant from Baron Byng High School, Mordecai Richler remained a snooker devotee. Here, in his inimitable style, he delves into that eccentric world with pith and perception. Outrageously funny, passionate and thoroughly researched on snooker tables from Montreal to Dublin, On Snooker...
Belling the Cat
Trade Paperback | pages | Vintage Canada | Literary Criticism & Collections - Essays
978-0-676-97214-6 (0-676-97214-4)
October 5, 1999 | $19.95
"More than forty years of scribble, scribble, scribble, and I have been sued only once..." But this collection of essays is no less a pleasure to read for all that. Mordecai Richler is an exuberant essayist, with a combative wit and sharp eye, regularly offending some, endearing himself mightily to others...
Written by Mordecai Richler
Trade Paperback | pages | Vintage Canada | Literary Criticism & Collections - Essays
978-0-676-97214-6 (0-676-97214-4)
October 5, 1999 | $19.95
"More than forty years of scribble, scribble, scribble, and I have been sued only once..." But this collection of essays is no less a pleasure to read for all that. Mordecai Richler is an exuberant essayist, with a combative wit and sharp eye, regularly offending some, endearing himself mightily to others...
Barney's Version
Trade Paperback | 432 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-676-97174-3 (0-676-97174-1)
November 1, 1998 | $22.00
Ebullient and perverse, thrice married, Barney Panofsky has always clung to two cherished beliefs: life is absurd and nobody truly ever understands anybody else. But when his sworn enemy publicly states that Barney is a wife abuser, an intellectual fraud and probably a murderer, he is driven to write his own...
Written by Mordecai Richler
Trade Paperback | 432 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-676-97174-3 (0-676-97174-1)
November 1, 1998 | $22.00
Ebullient and perverse, thrice married, Barney Panofsky has always clung to two cherished beliefs: life is absurd and nobody truly ever understands anybody else. But when his sworn enemy publicly states that Barney is a wife abuser, an intellectual fraud and probably a murderer, he is driven to write his own...
This Year In Jerusalem
Trade Paperback | 304 pages | Vintage Canada | Biography & Autobiography
978-0-394-28124-7 (0-394-28124-1)
September 5, 1995 | $16.00
"In 1944, I was aware of three youth groups committed to the compelling idea of an independent Jewish state: Hashomer Hatza'ir (The Young Guard), Young Judaea, and Habonim (The Builders).
Hashomer Hatza'ir was resolutely Marxist. According to intriguing reports I had heard, it was the custom, on their kibbutzim already established in...
Written by Mordecai Richler
Trade Paperback | 304 pages | Vintage Canada | Biography & Autobiography
978-0-394-28124-7 (0-394-28124-1)
September 5, 1995 | $16.00
"In 1944, I was aware of three youth groups committed to the compelling idea of an independent Jewish state: Hashomer Hatza'ir (The Young Guard), Young Judaea, and Habonim (The Builders).
Hashomer Hatza'ir was resolutely Marxist. According to intriguing reports I had heard, it was the custom, on their kibbutzim already established in...
