Mordecai : the life & times
Foran, Charles , 1960-
Mordecai : the life & times Mordecai : the life and times / Charles Foran - Toronto : Knopf Canada , c2010. - xiv, 738 p., [40] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references ([p. 705]-717) and index.
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.
Governor General Award (Canada) for Nonfiction 2011
9780676979657
2010533923
Richler, Mordecai , 1931-2001
Jewish authors----Biography
Novelists, Canadian----20th century----Biography
PR9199.3.F5669 / M67 2010
92 RIC
Mordecai : the life & times Mordecai : the life and times / Charles Foran - Toronto : Knopf Canada , c2010. - xiv, 738 p., [40] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references ([p. 705]-717) and index.
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.
Governor General Award (Canada) for Nonfiction 2011
9780676979657
2010533923
Richler, Mordecai , 1931-2001
Jewish authors----Biography
Novelists, Canadian----20th century----Biography
PR9199.3.F5669 / M67 2010
92 RIC
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