The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz by Mordecai Richler

Worrying 'about being so long away from the roots of my discontent', Richler returned to Montréal in 1972. He, living in London meanwhile, published seven of his ten novels as well as considerable journalism. Richler returned to Montréal in 1952, worked briefly at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and then moved to London in 1954. Richler, intent on following in the footsteps of many of a previous 'lost generation' of literary exiles of the 1920s from the United States, moved to Paris at age of 19 years in 1950. Years later, Leah Rosenberg, mother of Richler, published an autobiography, The Errand Runner: Memoirs of a Rabbi's Daughter (1981), which discusses birth and upbringing of Mordecai and the sometime difficult relationship. Richler enrolled in Sir George Williams College (now Concordia University) to study English but dropped before completing his degree. He learned Yiddish and English and graduated from Baron Byng High School. He was also well known for the Jacob Two-two stories of children.Ī scrap yard dealer reared this son on street in the mile end area of Montréal.

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The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz by Mordecai Richler