Mordecai

NATIONAL BESTSELLER
A GLOBE AND MAIL BEST BOOK

“A fine, intelligent, deeply historicized, compassionate, insightful, fair-minded and above all loving book.” —Adam Gopnik, author of Paris to the Moon and Angels and Ages

“It was a full, rich life, and it’s a full, rich book. . . . We judge a man by his life, a writer by his books. Charles Foran has done a thorough and thoughtful job of the first. Time will do the second.” —The Walrus
 
“A massive work that examines this master novelist, wit and public curmudgeon in sympathetic but not uncritical style.” —The Globe and Mail

“A comprehensive, panoramic portrait that will stand as the definitive Richler biography. . . . Foran is a master storyteller. . . . Ultimately, in Mordecai, Foran reminds us of how Richler managed to make Canadian culture relevant and sexy to the world.” —The Gazette (Montreal)
 
“The great strength of Mordecai is in the much deeper picture Foran gives of Richler’s relationships. . . . Foran gives a convincing and complex portrait of Richler.” —Winnipeg Free Press
 
“A massive and enthralling biography.” —National Post
 
“The definitive biography of Mordecai Richler. . . . So detailed, so exhaustive, so astute and authoritative. . . . This is a portrait of a dedicated artist who raged against the dying of the light. As I finished the book, I found tears rolling down my cheeks.” —Ken McGoogan, National Post
 
“Easily the most thorough accounting of Richler’s life. . . . An absorbing, sympathetic and often funny account of a fundamentally decent man who worked like a demon at his craft, and who brought the verve and engagement of an essayist to the sometimes aesthetically and tonally narrow world of Canadian literary fiction.” —Toronto Star