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Mordecai Richler

Born

in Montréal, Québec, Canada

January 27, 1931

Died

July 03, 2001

Genre

Fiction

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Working-class Jewish background based novels, which include The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1959) and Saint Urbain's Horseman (1971), of Canadian writer Mordecai Richler.

People best know Barney's Version (1997) among works of this author, screenwriter, and essayist; people shortlisted his novel Solomon Gursky Was Here (1989) for the Man Booker Prize in 1990. He was also well known for the Jacob Two-two stories of children.

A scrap yard dealer reared this son on street in the mile end area of Montréal. He learned Yiddish and English and graduated from Baron Byng High School. Richler enrolled in Sir George Williams College (now Concordia University) to study English but dropped before completing his degree.

Years later, Leah Rosen ...more

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Mordecai Richler’s books

Average rating: 3.9 · 35,208 ratings · 2,281 reviews · 87 distinct works • Similar authors

	Barney's Version 4.17 avg rating — 13,548 ratings — published 1997 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz 3.73 avg rating — 9,274 ratings — published 1959 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Solomon Gursky Was Here 3.98 avg rating — 3,174 ratings — published 1989 — 56 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang by Mordecai Richler, Fritz Wegner (Illustrator) 3.88 avg rating — 2,000 ratings — published 1975 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	St. Urbain's Horseman 3.77 avg rating — 1,829 ratings — published 1971 — 51 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Joshua Then and Now 3.88 avg rating — 1,342 ratings — published 1980 — 29 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cocksure 3.20 avg rating — 756 ratings — published 1968 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Street 3.55 avg rating — 658 ratings — published 1969 — 37 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Son of a Smaller Hero by Mordecai Richler, Ray Smith (Afterword) 3.57 avg rating — 391 ratings — published 1955 — 31 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Incomparable Atuk 3.11 avg rating — 394 ratings — published 1963 — 25 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Mordecai Richler

Jacob Two-Two (4 books)
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Mordecai Richler,

Norman Eyolfson

3.83 avg rating — 2,486 ratings

Quotes by Mordecai Richler (?)

“I don't hold with shamans, witch doctors, or psychiatrists. Shakespeare, Tolstoy, or even Dickens, understood more about the human condition than ever occurred to any of you. You overrated bunch of charlatans deal with the grammar of human problems, and the writers I've mentioned with the essence.”
― Mordecai Richler, Barney's Version

tags: human, literature, psychiatry

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“In a nutshell, I am not unaware of my failings. Neither am I a stranger to irony.”
― Mordecai Richler, Barney's Version

tags: biography, honesty, insite-to-self, irony, know-thyself, self-deprecation

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“Each man creates god in his own image.”
― Mordecai Richler, Son of a Smaller Hero

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