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Author Richler, Mordecai, 1931-2001, author.

Title Barney's version : a novel / by Mordecai Richler ; with footnotes and an afterword by Michael Panofsky.

Publication Info. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1997.

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Location Call No. Status
 Manchester, Main Library - Basement Materials  RICHLER, MORDECAI    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Fiction  FIC-RIC    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Adult Fiction  FIC RICHLER    Check Shelf
 South Windsor Public Library - Adult Fiction  RICHLER    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Adult Fiction  F RICHLER MORDECAI    Check Shelf
 Wethersfield Public Library - Adult Fiction  FIC RICHLER    Check Shelf
Edition 1st ed.
Description 355 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Summary 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 ...
Subject Murder -- Fiction.
Man-woman relationships -- Fiction.
Canada -- Fiction.
Man-woman relationships. (OCoLC)fst01007080
Murder. (OCoLC)fst01029781
Canada. (OCoLC)fst01204310
Genre/Form Novels.
Humorous fiction.
Humorous fiction.
Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
Humorous fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726649
Novels. (OCoLC)fst01921742
Dust jackets -- Specimens -- United States -- 1997.
Added Author Panofsky, Michael, writer of supplementary textual content.
ISBN 067940418X
9780679404187
0671028454 (pbk.)
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