Mordecai Richler Barneys Version 2011 Retail EPUB eBook-BitBook

Barney's Version |

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| DATE: 2012-06-04 SIZE: 2,08MB DISKS: 01_______4,77MB PAGES: |

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| PUBLISHER: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group GENRE: Fiction |

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| AUTHOR: Mordecai Richler |

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| FORMAT: EPUB PROTECTION: DRM EDITION: |

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| LANGUAGE: English ISBN: 978-0-307-81347-3 |

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: Charged with comic energy and a steely disregard for any pieties :

: whatsoever, Barney's Version is a major Richler novel, the most personal :

: and feeling book of a long and distinguished career. :

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: Told in the first person, it gives us the life (and what a life!) of Barney:

: Panofsky--whose trashy TV company, Totally Useless Productions, has made :

: him a small fortune; whose three wives include a martyred feminist icon, a :

: quintessential JCP (Jewish-Canadian Princess), and the incomparable Miriam,:

: the perfect wife, lover, and mother--alas, now married to another man; who :

: recalls with nostalgia and pain his young manhood in the Paris of the early:

: fifties, and his lifelong passion for wine, women, and the Montreal :

: Canadiens; who either did or didn't murder his best friend, Boogie, after :

: discovering him in bed with The Second Mrs. Panofsky; whose satirical eye :

: for the idiocies of today's Quebec separatists (as well as for every other :

: kind of political correctness) manages to offend his entire :

: acquaintanceship (and will soon be offending readers everywhere); and whose:

: memory--though not his bile--is, in his sixty-seventh year, definitely :

: slipping... :