Foran's book is IT: the definitive, detailed, intimate portrait of Mordecai Richler, the lion of Canadian literature, and the turbulent, changing times that nurtured him. It is also an extraordinary love story that lasted half a century. The first major biography with access to family letters and archives. Mordecai Richler was an outsized and outrageous novelist whose life reads like fiction. Mordecai Richler won multiple Governor General's Literary Awards, the Giller Prize, the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, among others, as well as many awards for his children's books. He also wrote…mehr
Foran's book is IT: the definitive, detailed, intimate portrait of Mordecai Richler, the lion of Canadian literature, and the turbulent, changing times that nurtured him. It is also an extraordinary love story that lasted half a century. The first major biography with access to family letters and archives. Mordecai Richler was an outsized and outrageous novelist whose life reads like fiction. Mordecai Richler won multiple Governor General's Literary Awards, the Giller Prize, the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, among others, as well as many awards for his children's books. He also wrote Oscar-nominated screenplays. His influence was larger than life in Canada and abroad. In Mordecai, award-winning novelist and journalist Charlie Foran brings to the page the richness of Mordecai's life as young bohemian, irreverent writer, passionate and controversial Canadian, loyal friend and deeply romantic lover. He explores Mordecai's distraught childhood, and gives us the "portrait of a marriage" - the lifelong love affair with Florence, with Mordecai as beloved father of five. The portrait is alive and intimate - warts and all.
CHARLES FORAN is a Member of the Order of Canada and a senior fellow at Massey College in the University of Toronto. He is the author of eleven books of fiction and nonfiction, and has won many awards and honours, including the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction, the Governor General’s Literary Award, the Canadian Jewish Book Award, the RBC Taylor Prize, and the Writers’ Trust Fellowship. He is currently the Executive Director of the Writers’ Trust of Canada. He lives in Toronto.
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Preface
PART I: MUTTLE, MUTTY, MORDY I. The Rebbe and the Shammas II. The Simchat Torah III. Richler Artificial Stone Works (No Success) IV. 5257 St. Urbain Street V. Battles VI. Wars VII. Comrades VIII. Making Aliyah IX. Room 41 X. Cut/Cutting Loose
PART II: APPRENTICE I. The Right Age II. C/O Bar Escandell, San Antonio, Ibiza, Spain III. Girls, Girls, Girls IV. Montreal, Dull and Anaesthetic V. M, The Boy Writer VI. Hampstead Parties VII. General Progress Report VIII. Canadian Club IX. Roquebrune
PART III: HORSEMAN I. I’ll Show You the World II. Montreal Meteor III. This Year in the Salt Mines IV. Tel Aviv, London, New York V. For My Father VI. Hillcrest, Kingston Hill, Surrey VII. Like Herzog VIII. Sitting Shiva IX. Minority Man X. Swiss Family Richler XI. Rest, Rest, Perturbed Spirit
PART IV: LOOK AT ME NOW I. An Affirming Flame II. Return of the Prodigal . . . Again III. Edgehill Road IV. Filthy, Disgusting Fellow V. An Old Jacket, Worn and Torn VI. Dear Maw VII. A Good House VIII. Oh! Canada!
PART V: M.R. WAS HERE I. A Very Complex Man II. My Father’s Life III. One’s Intentions Are Always Much Grander IV. The Gursky Family Tree
PART VI: HANG IN OLD FRIEND I. Back on the Map II. Things Are Bad Enough without Nastiness from Mordecai Richler III. The Golem IV. Richler Calls It V. Keep Fighting. Don’t Despair
PART VII: PHILEMON AND BAUCIS I. Boyishly Proud II. Two Alter Kockers III. Overtime
Epilogue
Bibliographic Essays Acknowledgements Photo Credits Permissions on Quoted Texts Selected Index
PART I: MUTTLE, MUTTY, MORDY I. The Rebbe and the Shammas II. The Simchat Torah III. Richler Artificial Stone Works (No Success) IV. 5257 St. Urbain Street V. Battles VI. Wars VII. Comrades VIII. Making Aliyah IX. Room 41 X. Cut/Cutting Loose
PART II: APPRENTICE I. The Right Age II. C/O Bar Escandell, San Antonio, Ibiza, Spain III. Girls, Girls, Girls IV. Montreal, Dull and Anaesthetic V. M, The Boy Writer VI. Hampstead Parties VII. General Progress Report VIII. Canadian Club IX. Roquebrune
PART III: HORSEMAN I. I’ll Show You the World II. Montreal Meteor III. This Year in the Salt Mines IV. Tel Aviv, London, New York V. For My Father VI. Hillcrest, Kingston Hill, Surrey VII. Like Herzog VIII. Sitting Shiva IX. Minority Man X. Swiss Family Richler XI. Rest, Rest, Perturbed Spirit
PART IV: LOOK AT ME NOW I. An Affirming Flame II. Return of the Prodigal . . . Again III. Edgehill Road IV. Filthy, Disgusting Fellow V. An Old Jacket, Worn and Torn VI. Dear Maw VII. A Good House VIII. Oh! Canada!
PART V: M.R. WAS HERE I. A Very Complex Man II. My Father’s Life III. One’s Intentions Are Always Much Grander IV. The Gursky Family Tree
PART VI: HANG IN OLD FRIEND I. Back on the Map II. Things Are Bad Enough without Nastiness from Mordecai Richler III. The Golem IV. Richler Calls It V. Keep Fighting. Don’t Despair
PART VII: PHILEMON AND BAUCIS I. Boyishly Proud II. Two Alter Kockers III. Overtime
Epilogue
Bibliographic Essays Acknowledgements Photo Credits Permissions on Quoted Texts Selected Index
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