My friend didn’t recommend this book, exactly, but she did recommend the author, Javier Marias, or at least said she was impressed with him, and this title is what my neighborhood library had on the shelf, so here we are. Dark Back of Time is a book about writing a book, and the book it’s abo...
Mordecai Richler’s penultimate novel, and certainly his most ambitious, Solomon Gursky Was Here is a yarn spun around the Gursky brothers – Bernard, Morrie, and Solomon – kings of a whiskey empire forged from bootlegging, millionaires many times over, and based on Canada’s Bronfman family. The br...
Joshua Then And Now is a compelling novel penned by Canada’s most intriguing writer. Joshua now is in hospital with broken limbs and a battered visage. Journalists are snooping around his house looking for tips. Joshua is a local writer, a celebrity of sorts, and there is rumour he has done somet...
This is the dirtiest, creepiest, most outrageous, most insane, more provocative novel I’ve read in some time. It’s also the most biting, razor-sharp satire I may have EVER read.Richler takes everything that is cliche about the 1960s and flays it like a freshly-caught salmon. Feminism, capitalism,...
My 7-year old daughter is quite enamored with the television show based on the Jacob Two-Two series so I decided to borrow the one installment that I found in our local library. As the story got underway she was more interested in the differences in character descriptions and illustration style ...
The following review is littered throughout with spoilers; and so as to err on the side of caution, I've opted to hide the entire thing...(view spoiler)[Browsing through Mordecai Richler's Wikipedia page one evening, the following sentence caught my attention: "Some critics [have] thought Richler...
This was Richler's second novel and one of several pieces of fiction he wrote about the Jewish community around St Urbain Street in Montreal. It is a story of three generations in a Jewish family and the coming of age story of Noah Adler, the idealistic son of Wolf and Leah and grandson of Melech...
The three leads are set in a love triangle which also opposes two sets of morality and the dichotomy of the individual versus the group. Set in 1957, a group of Canadian and American writers and film makers live in exile in London, England. Persecuted and driven from the U.S. by McCarthyism, they...
Goodreads SummaryTransplanted 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.Richler’s hil...