About the Author

Mordecai Richler is a novelist, essayist and journalist, winner of the 1990 Commonwealth Writers' Prize, twice shortlisted for the Booker Prize, who novels include Solomon Gursky Was Here, St Urbain's Horseman, The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, and Cocksure. He is the author of three essay collections, Broadsides, Hunting Tigers Under Glass and Home Sweet Home, as well as the Jacob Two-Two series of children's books. He spent twenty years in London, where he wrote for the New Statesman, Encounter, London Magazine, and several national newspapers. In 1972 he returned to his native Canada with his family, and now lives in Montreal.

Reviews

This treasure trove of letters, stories, essays, poems, selections from diaries and journals, and excerpts from novels covers WW II from seemingly every conceivable angle. A BOMC alternate selection in cloth. (Aug.)