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... :