The Street by Richler, Mordecai

The Street (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780771034770)

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Format: Paperback
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The Street by Richler, Mordecai

The Street

$12.95
The Street by Richler, Mordecai

The Street

$12.95
Format: Paperback
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In this beguiling collection of short stories and memoirs, first published in 1969, Mordecai Richler looks back on his childhood in Montreal, recapturing the lively panorama of St. Urbain Street: the refugees from Europe with their unexpected sophistication and snobbery; the catastrophic day when there was an article about St. Urbain Street in Time; Tansky's Cigar and Soda with its "beat-up brown phonebooth" used for "private calls"; and tips on sex from Duddy Kravitz.

Overflowing with humour, nostalgia, and wisdom, The Street is a brilliant introduction to Richler's lifelong love-affair with St. Urbain Street and its inhabitants.

Author: Mordecai Richler
ISBN-10: 0771034776
ISBN-13: 9780771034770
Publisher: New Canadian Library
Language: English
Published: 05/15/2002
Pages: 152
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.25lbs
Size: 6.90h x 4.30w x 0.40d
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.

William Weintraub was a reporter, writer, director, and film producer, best known for his long career with the National Film Board of Canada. He is the author of Why Rock the Boat?: A Novel; The Underdogs; Getting Started: A Memoir of the 1950s; and more.

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