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-"Toronto Star"
"It burgeons with its special talent and vulgar vitality."
-"Chicago Tribune"
"Richler [is] one of North America's most powerful novelists."
-"Washington Times"
"Richler has been praised highly for his clear-eyed vision and his realistic style. This novel will confirm that estimate... the total effect is brash and blatant as a sports car rally - and as suggestive of power."
-"New York Times Book Review"
"There can be no doubt of [Richler's] prodigal talent."
-"Times Literary Supplement"
"From the Trade Paperback edition."
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From Mordecai Richler, one of the greatest satirists, comes one of literature's most delightful characters, Duddy Kravitz -- in a novel that belongs in the pantheon of seminal twentieth century books.
Duddy -- the third generation of a Jewish immigrant family in Montreal -- is combative, amoral, scheming, a liar, and totally hilarious. From his street days tormenting teachers at the Jewish academy to his time hustling four jobs at once in a grand plan to "be somebody," Duddy learns about living -- and the lesson is an outrageous roller-coaster ride through the human comedy. As Richler turns his blistering commentary on love, money, and politics, The Apprenticeship Of Duddy Kravitz becomes a lesson for us all...in laughter and in life.
What with his wife so ill these past few weeks and the prospect of three more days of teaching before the weekend break, Mr MacPherson felt unusually glum. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
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The subject is forties Montreal,deep in French Canada,where the events in the lives of the jewish hero Duddy and his family are central. Bittersweet and sometimes tragic, the actions moves between the greatest canadian metropolis "the largest inland port in the world" and the Laurentians mountains where Duddy hopes to buy some land.
One invaluable history lesson from this novel was to discover the strong and vibrant jewish communites that exist in Montreal and Toronto.
One of the finest Canadian novels I have read.
This novel was written in 1959
I enjoyed this book.
While the first two or three chapters are not really needed in the novel, I found the character of Duddy Kravitz repulsive but strangely satisfying as a character. Cliched my ass. Okay, Max, Jerry Dingleman and Lennie are cliched, but you also get Virgil the epileptic, John Friar the Americommunist filmmaker, Yvette the "Girl Friday" who holds Duddy's land for him, and of course, you have the anti-Semitic Scot Mr. Macpherson. Sure it may sound cliched, but this was written 40 years ago. Cliches have come from this line of writing.
I may be a masochist but it's FUUUN to see Kravitz screw and be screwed. And Richler knows how to write a book. In my opinion, it may be nothing new, but at least it's nothing bad.....
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