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For The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz is really the fall of Willy Loman in medias res. This is a wonderful paysage moralisé, or in more ancient terms, a morality play about a superficially picaresque character who in the end gets the just desserts of a Hungry Ghost.

These events inspired his novel Barney's Version. The couple had five children together: Daniel, Jacob, Noah, Martha and Emma. Some years later, Richler and Mann divorced and married each other. On the eve of their wedding, he met Florence Wood Mann, a young married woman, who smited him. In England in 1954, Richler married Catherine Boudreau, a French-Canadian divorcée nine years his senior. He wrote repeatedly about the Jewish community of Montréal and especially portraying his former neighborhood in multiple novels. Worrying "about being so long away from the roots of my discontent", Richler returned to Montréal in 1972. He, living in London meanwhile, published seven of his ten novels as well as considerable journalism. Richler returned to Montréal in 1952, worked briefly at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and then moved to London in 1954. Richler, intent on following in the footsteps of many of a previous "lost generation" of literary exiles of the 1920s from the United States, moved to Paris at age of 19 years in 1950.

Years later, Leah Rosenberg, mother of Richler, published an autobiography, The Errand Runner: Memoirs of a Rabbi's Daughter (1981), which discusses birth and upbringing of Mordecai and the sometime difficult relationship.

Richler enrolled in Sir George Williams College (now Concordia University) to study English but dropped before completing his degree. He learned Yiddish and English and graduated from Baron Byng High School. He was also well known for the Jacob Two-two stories of children.Ī scrap yard dealer reared this son on street in the mile end area of Montréal. People best know Barney's Version (1997) among works of this author, screenwriter, and essayist people shortlisted his novel Solomon Gursky Was Here (1989) for the Man Booker Prize in 1990.

Working-class Jewish background based novels, which include The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1959) and Saint Urbain's Horseman (1971), of Canadian writer Mordecai Richler.