Cocksure - Rilegato

Richler, Mordecai

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ISBN 10: 0771074956 ISBN 13: 9780771074950

Casa editrice: McClelland & Stewart, 1968

Riassunto

In the swinging culture of sixties’ London, Canadian Mortimer Griffin is a beleaguered editor adrift in a sea of hypocrisy and deceit. Alone in a world where nobody shares his values but everyone wants the same things, Mortimer must navigate the currents of these changing times. Richler’s eccentric cast of characters include the gorgeous Polly, who conducts her life as though it were a movie, complete with censor-type cuts at all the climactic moments; Rachel Coleman, slinky Black Panther of the boudoir; Star Maker, the narcissistic Hollywood tycoon who has discovered the secret of eternal life; and a precocious group of school children with a taste for the teachings of the Marquis de Sade. Cocksure is a savagely funny satire on television, movies, and the entertainment industry. This is Mordecai Richler at his most caustic and wicked best.

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Recensione:

“It’s a funny book, gorgeously so. I wish I’d written it myself.”
–Anthony Burgess, Life Magazine

“Short, sharp, sexy, and witty, it is full of energy and invention....Exhilarating.”
–Margaret Drabble

“Outrageous and irreverent.”
–Daily Express (U.K.)

“A wild, far-out satire that manages to be funny-dirty much of the time....
Smashing hilarity....”
–Publishers Weekly

“Bright, authentically witty and imaginative and knocks you
cockeyed sprawling in the aisles....”
–Newsweek

L'autore:

Mordecai Richler was born in Montreal in 1931. The author of ten successful novels, numerous screenplays, and several books of non-fiction, his novel, Barney's Version, was an acclaimed bestseller and the winner of The Giller Prize, the Stephen Leacock Award for Humour, the QSpell Award, and the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Novel in the Caribbean and Canada region. Richler also won two Governor General’s Awards and was shortlisted twice for the Booker Prize.

Mordecai Richler died in Montreal in July 2001.
From the Trade Paperback edition.

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• Editore: McClelland & Stewart
• Data di pubblicazione: 1968
• ISBN 10: 0771074956
• ISBN 13: 9780771074950
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida