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COCKSURE, by Mordecai Richler. Satirist Richler's basic weapon is seductio ad absitrdum in this stylish spoof of the communications industry and pop culture...
COCKSURE, by Mordecai Richler. Satirist Richler's basic weapon is seductio ad absurdum in this stylish spoof of the communications industry and pop culture...
COCKSURE by Mordecai Richler. 250 pages. Simon & Schuster...
...Stick Your Neck Out, Mordecai Richler's 1963 satirical novel, an Eskimo conquers the demi-world of Canadian intellectuals and literally loses his head on a quiz show that plays for keeps. Cocksure trades in the same buffoonery of annihilation and, like its predecessor, scores easily on some already heavily dented targets: big business, the communications industry, pop culture, organized morality, modern education...
...shirking for years, is about ten married or mismarried pairs in a New England town, and Updike can be expected to use his apparently limitless descriptive gifts to detail sexual acts. Gore Vidal's new book poses the question of whether a transvestite can find happiness in Hollywood. Mordecai Richler's novel-a satire about movies and publishing in London-is called Cocksure, and the climax describes the ultimate in autoerotic acts. Terry Southern's Blue Movie promises to be a blue book and Lawrence Durrell's first novel in eight years celebrates sensuality under...