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Barney's Version

A Novel

Barney's Version( )
Author: Richler, Mordecai
ISBN:978-0-09-955446-2
Publication Date:Mar 2011
Publisher:Penguin Random House
Imprint:Arrow
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:AUD $35.00
Book Description:

Even Barney Panofsky's friends tend to agree that he is 'a wife-abuser, an intellectual fraud, a purveyor of pap, a drunk with a penchant for violence and probably a murderer'. But when Barney's sworn enemy threatens to publish this damning verdict, Barney is driven to write his own memoirs, rewinding the spool of his life, editing, selecting and plagiarising, as his memory plays tricks on him - and on the reader. Barney slides from crisis to success, from lowlife to highlife in...
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Book Details
Pages:416
Detailed Subjects: Fiction / Humorous / General
Fiction / Crime
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):13.1 x 19.8 x 3.2 cm
Book Weight:0.296 Kilograms
Author Biography
Richler, Mordecai (Author)
Novelist, journalist and screenwriter Mordecai Richler was born on January 27, 1931 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He attended Sir George Williams College for two years.

He lived in Paris, Spain and England, and while in England worked as a journalist and radio and television scriptwriter.

His fourth novel, The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1959), was received with far more enthusiasm than previous efforts. He has written a number of screenplays (including Fun with Dick and Jane and the script for The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz). His awards include the Governor-General Awards, the Commonwealth Writer's Prize and the Ruth Schwartz Children's Book Award.

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