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The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
by Mordecai Richler.First published 1959.
Paperback.
ISBN-10:
0671028472
ISBN-13: 978-0671028473
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ISBN-13: 978-0671028473
It is time to
recognize Mr. Richler as one of North America's most powerful novelists.
– The Washington Times.
A rasping humor pervades the book....It burgeons with its special talent and a vulgar vitality. – Chicago Tribune.
A
fast-moving, entertaining, and bawdy novel. – The Washington Times.
A rasping humor pervades the book....It burgeons with its special talent and a vulgar vitality. – Chicago Tribune.
Funny in the
biting, subversive manner of Joseph Heller and Philip Roth. – Los
Angeles Times.
Duddy Kravitz
[is] Richler's most famous creation. – Minneapolis Star Tribune.
Richler has
been praised for his clear-eyed vision and his realistic style.... The total
effect is as brash and blatant as a sports car rally -- and as suggestive of
power. It comes off brilliantly. – Alfred Kazin, The New York Times
Book Review.
From Mordecai
Richler, one of our greatest satirists, comes one of literature's most
delightful characters, Duddy Kravitz -- in a novel that belongs in the pantheon
of seminal twentieth century books.
Duddy -- the
third generation of a Jewish immigrant family in Montreal -- is combative,
amoral, scheming, a liar, and totally hilarious. From his street days
tormenting teachers at the Jewish academy to his time hustling four jobs at
once in a grand plan to "be somebody," Duddy learns about living --
and the lesson is an outrageous roller-coaster ride through the human comedy.
As Richler turns his blistering commentary on love, money, and politics, The
Apprenticeship Of Duddy Kravitz becomes a lesson for us all ... in
laughter and in life.
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