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Mordecai : the life & times / Charles Foran

By:

Foran, Charles, , 1960-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Toronto : Knopf Canada , c2010.Description: xiv, 738 p., [40] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:

9780676979657

Other title:

Mordecai : the life and times

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

92 RIC

LOC classification:

PR9199.3.F5669 M67 2010

Awards:

Governor General Award (Canada) for Nonfiction 2011

Summary: 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.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C.	92 RIC (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		041527

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

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