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FICTION: A Gentle Occupation, Dirk Bogarde •Falling in Place, Ann Beanie •Finding a Girl in America, Andre Dubus •Doctor Fischer of Geneva or the Bomb Party, Graham Greene •Joshua Then and Now, Mordecai Richler •Preparations for the Ascent, Gilbert Rogin •Rough Strife, Lynne Sharon Schwartz
FICTION: A Gentle Occupation, Dirk Bogarde ∙Falling in Place, Ann Beattie ∙Finding a Girl in America, Andre Dubus ∙Doctor Fischer of Geneva or the Bomb Party, Graham Greene ∙Joshua Then and Now, Mordecai Richler ∙Morgan's Passing, Anne Tyler ∙Preparations for the Ascent, Gilbert Rogin
JOSHUA THEN AND NOW by Mordecai Richler; Knopf; 435 pages...
With his eighth and best novel, Mordecai Richler, the wandering Canadian, comes home. It is a place of great vitality, unabashed tenderness, grotesque humor and a grouchy reverence for things as they were. In some respects, the book is a Jewish Brideshead Revisited, the sacred and profane memoirs of an exaggerated autobiographical character named Joshua Shapiro, a Montreal writer and TV personality. A resemblance to Evelyn Waugh's novel is not farfetched. Richler twice borrows the comic master's line about the companions of his youth: "Mad, bad, and dangerous to know." In addition, the prodigal North American...
Surveying the skyline of Calgary, where 29 huge construction cranes are climbing atop new office towers, Canadian Novelist Mordecai Richler observed: "That's going to be a helluva city when they get it uncrated." In Edmonton, 180 miles to the north, Ford has sold hundreds more Thunderbirds than usual this year. Boasts Dealer Ryan Taylor: "They can't give those gas guzzlers away south of the border, but they are going like crazy up here." Around the town of Medicine Hat, where 1,700 oil and gas wells have been drilled in the past year, Canadian, British...