Solomon Gursky Was Here
$32.14
- Paperback
528 pages
- Release Date
5 July 1991
Summary
‘A rich, rude, eccentric saga about the Gursky dynasty that crossbreeds Jewish and Canadian myths and is full of splendid comic detail’ - Observer
WINNER OF THE 1990 COMMONWEALTH WRITERS PRIZE, SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 1990
Since the age of eleven Moses Berger has been obsessed with the Gursky clan, an insanely wealthy, profoundly seductive family of Jewish-Canadian descent. Now a 52-year-old alcoholic biographer, Berger is desperately trying to chroni…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099877301 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099877309 |
| Author: | Mordecai Richler |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 528 |
| Release Date: | 5 July 1991 |
| Weight: | 362g |
| Dimensions: | 33mm x 130mm x 198mm |
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Critics Review
The wit, depth and wickedness of this resonant novel suggest a happy synthesis of Dickens, Malcolm Lowry and Philip Roth… This is a very fine work
The wit, depth and wickedness of this resonant novel suggest a happy synthesis of Dickens, Malcolm Lowry and Philip Roth… This is a very fine work * The Times *
A rich, rude, eccentric saga about the Gursky dynasty that crossbreeds Jewish and Canadian myths and is full of splendid comic detail * Observer *
Vast, chaotic, vigorously imagined and ambitiously freighted * Independent *
A major work of rich complexity * Sunday Telegraph *
It is passionate, it has a thickness of living about it, and it is made to blaze every now and then with an uncommonly fine bit of worldly wisdom, memorably delivered out of the side of the mouth * Guardian *
Mordecai Richler
Mordecai Richler was an acclaimed Canadian novelist and essayist born in Montreal in 1931. He won the Commonwealth Prize, the Paris Review Humour Prize, was twice shortlisted for the Booker Prize for his novels Solomon Gursky Was Here and St. Urbain’s Horseman, and was nominated for an Oscar for his screenplay of The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz. He died in 2001.
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