The Acrobats: Penguin Modern Classics Edition by Richler, Mordecai

The Acrobats: Penguin Modern Classics Edition (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780771073342)

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Format: Paperback
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The Acrobats: Penguin Modern Classics Edition by Richler, Mordecai

The Acrobats: Penguin Modern Classics Edition

$16.00
The Acrobats: Penguin Modern Classics Edition by Richler, Mordecai

The Acrobats: Penguin Modern Classics Edition

$16.00
Format: Paperback
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Living in a rat-infested hotel in Franco's post-war Spain, Andr Bennett, a Canadian painter, loves Toni, his girl friend, who wants him to return home. Roger Kraus, a Nazi on the run, shadows the young artist day and night. They meet on a bridge during the last night of the fiesta, and as the sky is shredded by exploding fireworks, the story draws to its violent climax. Originally published in 1954, The Acrobats marks Mordecai Richler's stunning debut as a novelist.

Author: Mordecai Richler
ISBN-10: 0771073348
ISBN-13: 9780771073342
Publisher: Emblem Editions
Language: English
Published: 10/11/2016
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.60d
By Mordecai Richler
By Mordecai Richler
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Mordecai Richler was born in Montreal, Quebec, in 1931. Raised there in the working-class Jewish neighbourhood around St. Urbain Street, he attended Sir George Williams College (now a part of Concordia University). In 1951 he left Canada for Europe, settling in London, England, in 1954. Eighteen years later, he moved back to Montreal.

Novelist and journalist, screenwriter and editor, Richler, one of our most acclaimed writers, spent much of his career chronicling, celebrating, and criticizing the Montreal and the Canada of his youth. Whether the settings of his fiction are St. Urbain Street or European capitals, his major characters never forsake the Montreal world that shaped them. His most frequent voice is that of the satirist, rendering an honest account of his times with care and humour.

Richler's many honours include the Giller Prize, two Governor General's Awards, and innumerable other awards for fiction, journalism, and screenwriting. He died in Montreal in 2001.

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