In this country, Mordecai Richler is probably best-known for the 1974 movie The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, based on his novel of the same name. But, for some unaccountable reason, Richler - who ...

Novelist Mordecai Richler, a caustically brilliant observer of the human condition — especially when it was Jewish, Canadian or politically incorrect — was never one to spare himself or his loved ones ...