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Barney's version : with footnotes and an afterword by Michael Panofsky : a novel by Mordecai Richler; with footnotes and an afterword by Michael Panofsky is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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355 pages ; 24 cm Told in the first person, Barney's Version 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 .. Includes bibliographical references

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Author
Mordecai Richler; with footnotes and an afterword by Michael Panofsky
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House
Published
1999
Language
EN
ISBN
9780307741097
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humor
Rating
4.14 / 5 (206 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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