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
From the Hardcover edition.
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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