Le Monde selon Barney : roman

The Resource Le Monde selon Barney : roman
Label
Le Monde selon Barney : roman
Title remainder
roman
Statement of responsibility
Mordecai Richler ; with footnotes and an afterword by Michael Panofsky ; translated from the English by Lori Saint-Martin and Paul Gagné
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Language
  • fre
  • eng
  • fre
Summary
When a sixty-seven-year-old Canadian rascal named Bernard Panofsky decides to write "the true story of my wasted life." the result is Barney's Version, Mordecai Richler's wickedly funny blend of satire, social commentary, and brilliant introspection on the state of contemporary life. Hoping to rebut the charges about him made in a rival's autobiography Barney feels compelled to pen his account of events. From his bohemian misadventures during the 1950s in Paris to the fortune he amassed through his trashy TV company Totally Unnecessary Productions and the three women he married, he quickly proves that his memory may be slipping, but his bile isn't. He skewers feminists, politicians, the bourgeoisie, fads, social movements, and most of all himself. And when it comes to being charged with the murder of his own best friend -- caught in bed with the second Mrs. Panofsky -- Barney's version is as contradictory and slippery as real life right up to its astonishing end
Cataloging source
CaOWLBI
Literary form
non fiction
Target audience
adult
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