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Barney's Version
Barney's Version | Mordecai Richler
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Charged with comic energy and a steely disregard for any pieties whatsoever, Barney's Version is a major Richler novel, the most personal and feeling book of a long and distinguished career.Told in the first person, it gives us the life (and what a life!) of Barney Panofsky--whose trashy TV company, Totally Useless Productions, has made him a small fortune; whose three wives include a martyred feminist icon, a quintessential JCP (Jewish-Canadian Princess), and the incomparable Miriam, the perfect wife, lover, and mother--alas, now married to another man; who recalls with nostalgia and pain his young manhood in the Paris of the early fifties, and his lifelong passion for wine, women, and the Montreal Canadiens; who either did or didn't murder his best friend, Boogie, after discovering him in bed with The Second Mrs. Panofsky; whose satirical eye for the idiocies of today's Quebec separatists (as well as for every other kind of political correctness) manages to offend his entire acquaintanceship (and will soon be offending readers everywhere); and whose memory--though not his bile--is, in his sixty-seventh year, definitely slipping . . .From the Hardcover edition.
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Villo
La versione di Barney | Mordecai Richler
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Amazing writer for an amusing story. #2002

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rabbitprincess
Barney's Version | Mordecai Richler
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My first Mordecai Richler book. I read it in Grade 12 English for our independent study project and something about it clicked for me. The movie ended up being really good, much to my surprise.
#marchintoreading day 27: Canadian authors

LeahBergen This was my first Richler, too. Oh, but my elementary teacher read us 8y
rabbitprincess @LeahBergen My dad was like "Most people start with Duddy Kravitz". Really, I chose this one because I liked the font on the cover ? 8y
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Angelala007
Barney's Version | Mordecai Richler
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I can't believe it's been 15 years since I stood in that convenience store and cried while reading the Globe and Mail. ❤️💜💙

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