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1	Barney's Version more books like this by Mordecai Richler add to wishlist Barney Panofsky's Canadian TV company, Totally Useless Productions, has made him a small fortune but left him feeling idle and dishonest. Thrice-married (with increasing dissatisfaction) and pushing 70, Barney looks back with regret and sarcasm on his life, his friends, and his country. A New York Times Notable Book for 1998. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Solomon Gursky was here more books like this by Mordecai Richler add to wishlist Moses Berger, writer, salmon-fisher and drunk, becomes hooked on the history of Gursky, a 19th-century bootlegger, and follows a trail which takes him from London to the Orkneys and to Arctic Canada where strange Eskimoes practice Judaic rites. This book was shortlisted for the 1990 Booker Prize. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.87! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang more books like this by Mordecai Richler add to wishlist Jacob Two-Two says everything twice. But the grocer thinks Jacob's being rude when he asks for something twice, and before he knows it, Jacob has been arrested and whisked away to Slimer's Isle. How Jacob outsmarts the jailer and saves the children of Slimer's Isle makes for outrageously funny reading. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.19! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz more books like this by Mordecai Richler add to wishlist Mordecai Richler's classic coming-of-age novel, about a monumentally self-absorbed, upwardly mobile young man--like Richler, a Canadian Jew--was seen by Jews as an unwarranted attack on the Montreal Jewish community, but became a huge popular success after it was made into a 1974 motion picture starring Richard Dreyfuss. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	Cocksure more books like this by Mordecai Richler add to wishlist An early novel by the Canadian author of "Solomon Gursky Was Here", winner of the Commonwealth Prize and shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Evoking the bawdy Sixties, this book assembles a bizarre gallery of characters working out their problems against the frantic background of Swinging London. see all copies from $2.50! new only from $16.95! \| signed copies \| first editions
6	St Urbain's horseman more books like this by Mordecai Richler add to wishlist An early novel by the Canadian author of "Solomon Gursky Was Here", winner of the Commonwealth Prize and shortlisted for the Booker Prize. A Jewish Canadian living in London falls prey to a seedy little accountant and finds himself at the Old Bailey, on trial for a generation consumed with guilt. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $49.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	Joshua Then and Now more books like this by Mordecai Richler add to wishlist "Joshua Then and Now" is about Joshua Shapiro today, and the Joshua he was. His father a boxer turned honest crook, his mother an erotic dancer whose greatest performance was at Joshua's bar mitzvah, Joshua has overcome his inauspicious beginnings in the Jewish ghetto of Montreal to become a celebrated television writer and a successful journalist ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $24.29! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	The Best of Modern Humor more books like this by Mordecai Richler add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Broadsides : reviews and opinions by Mordecai Richler add to wishlist see all copies from $3.54! first editions
10	This year in Jerusalem more books like this by Mordecai Richler add to wishlist From his Yiddish childhood in a coldwater flat on Montreal's St Urbain's Street, Mordecai Richler evokes a North-American Jewish adolescence, his family and friends, and leads us through the modern history of Zionism, the kibbutz movement, and Israel then and now. He describes the cultural melting pot of his Canadian youth - nurtured, as he was, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $14.95! \| signed copies \| first editions
11	The incomparable Atuk more books like this by Mordecai Richler add to wishlist Transplanted to Toronto from his native Baffin Island, Atuk the poet is an unlikely overnight success. Eagerly adapting to a society steeped in pretension, bigotry, and greed, Atuk soon abandons the literary life in favour of more lucrative and hazardous schemes. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
12	Oh Canada! Oh Quebec!: Requiem for a Divided Country more books like this by Mordecai Richler add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $20.00! \| signed copies \| first editions
13	Son of a Smaller Hero more books like this by Mordecai Richler add to wishlist Young Noah Adler, passionate, ruthlessly idealistic, is the prodigal son of Montreal' s Jewish ghetto. Finding tradition in league with self-delusion, he attempts to shatter the ghetto' s illusory walls by entering the foreign territory of the "goyim," But here, freedom and self-determination continue to elude him. Eventually, Noah comes to ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.51! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	The street more books like this by Mordecai Richler add to wishlist In this beguiling collection of short stories and memoirs, first published in 1969, Mordecai Richler looks back on his childhood in Montreal, recapturing the lively panorama of St. Urbain Street: the refugees from Europe with their unexpected sophistication and snobbery; the catastrophic day when there was an article about St. Urbain Street in ... see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions
15	Home Sweet Home more books like this by Mordecai Richler add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.75! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Barney's version : a novel. more books like this by Mordecai Richler add to wishlist From his Yiddish childhood in a coldwater flat on Montreal's St Urbain's Street, Mordecai Richler evokes a North-American Jewish adolescence, his family and friends, and leads us through the modern history of Zionism, the kibbutz movement, and Israel then and now. He describes the cultural melting pot of his Canadian youth - nurtured, as he was, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.43! \| first editions
17 view cover	The Moslem Wife and Other Stories more books like this by Mavis Gallant, Mordecai Richler (Afterword by) add to wishlist McClelland & Stewart's elegant New Canadian Library series acknowledges and celebrates Canada's glorious literary achievements. Original Afterwords and bibliographies by leading writers complete each book. -- Over 300 years of excellence in Canadian writing -- Over one million sold since 1990 see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.72! \| first editions \| SVS
18	Home Sweet Home: My Canadian Album more books like this by Mordecai Richler add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Belling the Cat: Essays, Reports & Opinions more books like this by Richler add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions
20	Jacob Two Two & Dinosa more books like this by Mordecai Richler, Frances Foster (Editor), Norman Eyolfson (Illustrator) add to wishlist When Jacob Two-Two's father brings him back a small lizard from Kenya, it grows to enormous proportions, and to protect his now identifiable Diplodocus from frightened grown-ups, Jacob runs away with him to British Columbia. see all copies from $1.99! first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Jacob Two-Two-'s First Spy Case more books like this by Mordecai Richler, Norman Eyolfson (Illustrator) add to wishlist Things turn sour at Privilege House, Jacob Two-Two’s private school, when the headmaster, Mr. Goodbody, is replaced by the despicable I.M. Greedyguts. Now everything is unbearable, from geography class to the ghastly lunches made by Perfectly Loathsome Leo Louse. Worse yet, nobody’s parents believe how bad it really is. Fortunately, ... see all copies from $2.66! new only from $4.31! \| SVS
22	Notes on an Endangered Species, and Others more books like this by Mordecai Richler add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions
23 view cover	Jacob Two Two and the Dinosaur more books like this by Mordecai Richler (Producer) add to wishlist In this fast-paced and hilarious sequel to Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang, Jacob Two-Two is in double trouble again. His tiny lizard has grown . . . and grown . . . and grown into a huge diplodocus dinosaur. When the government declares "Dippy" a menace, Jacob and his pet escape to the wilderness. Can Jacob and Dippy outsmart the government ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.31! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
24	Shovelling trouble more books like this by Mordecai Richler add to wishlist see all copies from $3.60! first editions
25	Canadian Writing Today more books like this by Mordecai Richler add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions

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