Mordecai richler biography charles foran up

This book took a long time to read. The author provides detail after detail about Mordecai Richler's life.

Mordecai: The Life and Times - Charles Foran

For a while I was on a 10 page a day regimen just to get through because, either through my lack of knowledge or just a plain lack of interest in Richler's letters written, friendships gained and lost and travel adventures it was just plain, hard reading.

But then the book actually got more interesting, at least, if not more exciting.

Richler's approach to the separatist movement in Quebec, the language laws, etc. were perhaps more familiar to me and therefore of greater interest.

It is clear throughout the book that Richler is a brilliant man, an outstanding writer, a smitten, devoted husband and a loving and loved father. His wife, Florence, is beautiful at a young age and dazzling as she ages.

In fact in order to ensure that the reader understands these points Foran repeats them ad nauseum.

And this gets in the way.

Foran reports