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Mordecai & Me: An Appreciation of a Kind

Mordecai & Me: An Appreciation of a Kind

Yanofsky, Joel

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ISBN10: 0889952663
ISBN13: 9780889952669
Publisher: Red Deer Press
Published: Sep 8 2003
Pages: 336
Weight: 1.33
Height: 1.17 Width: 6.05 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
Awards: IndieFab awards

Mordecai & 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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