{"product_id":"9780889952669","title":"Mordecai and Me: An Appreciation of a Kind","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eForeWord Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e Book of the Year Awards Bronze Award - Autobiography\/Memoir \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eQuebec Writer's Federation Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction Winner (2004) \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCanadian Jewish Book of the Year Award Winner (2004) \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCanadian Jewish Book Award for Memoir\/Biography \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrainie Taylor Biography Prize Nomination \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlberta Trade Nonfiction Book of the Year Nomination \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMordecai and Me: An Appreciation of a Kind\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of one writer's obsession with another. In this \"really unauthorized biography,\" Joel Yanofsky, a veteran Montreal book reviewer, literary journalist and novelist, tracks the elusive legend of Mordecai Richler in the year following his death. This insightful and quirky quest leads Yanofsky to consult - though pester may be more like it - a rabbi, a shrink and a dream analyst.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat starts out as a literary appreciation turns into a literary stalking, propelled as much by envy as admiration, irreverence as affection, confession as critical judgment. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Montrealer himself and a journalist by trade, Joel Yanofsky has covered the Canadian literary scene, interviewing and reviewing Richler, while taking the measure of the city that he believes was destroyed culturally by the reign of separatist governments. Yanofsky cuts through the recent public adoration, as well as through Richler's own carefully protected persona, to reveal the depth and contradictions hidden beneath. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fitzhenry \u0026 Whiteside, Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47009392754928,"sku":"9780889952669","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780889952669_p0.jpg?v=1763851897","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780889952669","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}