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Joshua Then and Now
by Richler, Mordecai
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine condition/Near Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0394493516
- ISBN 13
- 9780394493510
- Seller
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Henderson, Nevada, United States
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1980. Bright, clean, square, tight, unmarked copy. Sharp corners. No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. Not a Book Club edition. Not price clipped (11.95). A comic novel of Jewish resentment, about a Montreal street kid who becomes an internationally celebrated writer, marries a gentile dream girl, and is outrageously embroiled in a financial scandal, a family scandal, and a sex scandal. Basis for the 1985 film starring James Woods, Alan Arkin, and Gabrielle Lazure. Original white cloth spine and cream-colored boards. First Printing of the First US Edition. Hardcover. Fine condition/Near Fine dust jacket. 8vo. 435pp.
Synopsis
Mordecai Richler was born in Montreal in 1931. The author of ten successful novels, numerous screenplays, and several books of non-fiction, his novel, Barney's Version, was an acclaimed bestseller and the winner of The Giller Prize, the Stephen Leacock Award for Humour, the QSpell Award, and the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Novel in the Caribbean and Canada region. Richler also won two Governor General’s Awards and was shortlisted twice for the Booker Prize. Mordecai Richler died in Montreal in July 2001.
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- Bookseller
- About Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 010111
- Title
- Joshua Then and Now
- Author
- Richler, Mordecai
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine condition
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- First Printing of the First US Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0394493516
- ISBN 13
- 9780394493510
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1980
- Bookseller catalogs
- Judaica / Jewish Studies;
- Size
- 8vo. 435pp
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