- 528 pages
- English
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About this book
Based on never-before published material from the Richler archives as well as interviews with family members, friends, and acquaintances, Mordecai Richler: Leaving St Urbain shows how Richler consistently mined his remarkable life for material for his novels. Beginning with the early clashes with his grandfather over Orthodox Judaism, and exposing the reasons behind his life-long quarrel with his mother, Kramer follows Richler as he flees to Ibiza and Paris, where he counted himself as one of the avant-garde who ushered in the 1960s. His successes abroad gave him the opportunity to remain in England and leave novel-writing behind — but he did neither. More than a biography, Mordecai Richler: Leaving St Urbain is the story of a Jewish culture finding its place within a larger stream, a literary culture moving into the colloquial, and a Canada torn between nationalism and cosmopolitanism.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Illustrations
- Introduction
- PART I: Tiefste Provinz 1931–1950
- 1 Geyt, yidelech, in der vayter velt
- 2 A Light Has Gone Out in Israel
- 3 À bas les Juifs
- 4 Shabbes Goy
- 5 A Losers’ Finishing School
- PART II: yurop 1950–1972
- 6 Bohemia among the Fishermen: Ibiza
- 7 Mr. Gauche of the Rive-gauche: Paris
- 8 What Do You Know about the Circus?
- 9 Cathy, Commerce, and Señor Hoore: London
- 10 Friends and Enemies
- 11 Florence Mann, the Golden Shiska
- 12 The End of the Apprenticeship
- 13 Certified Libel-Free
- 14 Idols of the Tribe
- 15 Cocksure; Spent Worm
- 16 Mortimer Square and the Counterculture
- 17 Horseman
- PART III: Home Again 1972–2001
- 18 Return to Avonlea
- 19 Hollywood North
- 20 Kiddie Author
- 21 Back to Ibiza
- 22 Lily, Round 3
- 23 Last of the Free-Market Scribblers
- 24 The Bronfmans Are Gathering
- 25 Tongue Trooper
- 26 VIP’s Israel
- 27 The Bourgeois Trickster
- 28 Absolut Barney
- 29 A Few Parting Shots
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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