The Last Honest Man Mordecai Richler: An Oral Biography

Novelist, Essayist, Satirist, and Iconoclast, Mordecai Richler was one of Canada's most popular - and controversial - writers. In The Last Honest Man Michael Posner deftly weaves 150 interviews with Richler's many friends, colleagues, and rivals into a rich biography of the writer's life. These memories capture Richler in all his guises: the grumpy and the high-spirited man, the observer and the engaged, the generous and the distanced, the enthusiastic and the sardonic, the man as consumately at ease in the Ritz Hotel as in his favourite Montreal watering hole, Winnie's, but awkward in crowded social situations. Richler's contradictory facets are displayed in all their complexity in this unconventional portrait of the rich and creative life of a brilliant writer. Book jacket.

Michael Posner is an arts reporter and feature writer for the Globe and Mail. He is the author of three previous nonfiction books.


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