Richler, Mordecai.

Solomon Gursky Was Here (SIGNED)

Viking Press, 1989. 1st. Hardcover. 0670825263. Signed by Author(s). First printing, Canadian edition. Thick octavo, hardcover, dustjacket. Text is Nearly Fine with owner's inscription inside. Dustjacket is not price-clipped, average edge-wear, couple of short edge-tears. SIGNED by the author on the page facing the title page (flat-signed, without inscription). Very Good.

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Richler, Mordecai,

Solomon Gursky Was Here.

London, Vintage, (1991). VG PB. Rich, rude, eccentric saga about the Gursky dynasty that crossbreeds Jewish & Canadian myths & is full of comic detail.

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RICHLER MORDECAI

Solomon Gursky Was Here

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990. Trade Paperback. ISBN: 0394539958. Trade paperback. Previous owner's blind stamp and name on front free end-paper, a sound binding, clean, unmarked pages. Small scrape to the front cover edge." Moses Berger's magnificent obsession with the Gursky family leads him to Solomon Gursky, the disdained, disgraced, and dead Gursky brother who figures prominently--but mysteriously--in the annals of Gursky history and finance. "; Book Club Edition; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; 413 pages. Very Good+ with no dust jacket .

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Richler, Mordecai"

"Solomon Gursky Was Here"

"ALFRED A KNOPF", "1990, hardcover with dust jacket / good copy, 1st US edition". ISBN: 9780394539959.

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Richler, Mordecai

Solomon Gursky Was Here

Markham, Viking, 1989. Hardcover. pp. 557. 8vo. Tan binding. Light shelfwear. Dustjacket noticeably shelfworn and creased, with some nicking to edges, now protected in plastic brodart sleeve; very good in very good- dustjacket. SIGNED by Richler. .

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Mordecai Richler

Solomon Gursky Was Here

Vintage 1991 Paperback, 510pp. 'Brimming with sardonic humor, antic imagination and bravura storytelling skill, Richler's fifth novel (after Joshua Was Here ) is an interlocking account of the outrageously bold and daring eponymous protagonist, and of his would-be biographer, brilliant but alcoholic Moses Berger, obsessed with discovering the mysteries of Solomon's life and--maybe--his death. Perhaps inspired by Canada's Bronfman family, Richler creates the three Gursky brothers, bootleggers turned liquor industry tycoons, who are descended from the legendary rapscallion, lecher and arctic explorer Ephraim Gursky. Ephraim's exploits--among other things, he was a survivor of Sir John Francis's ill-fated 1845 expedition to search for the Northwest Passage--are echoed in the adventures of his grandson Solomon, who fights with his treacherous brother Bernard for control of the burgeoning empire. Engrossed in his Gursky research, Moses abandons his once-promising career and endures the loss of the woman he loves.' -Publisher Weekly ; The novel tells of several generations of the fictional Gursky family, who are connected to several disparate events in the history of Canada, including the Franklin Expedition and rum-running. Some fans and critics have cited this as Mordecai Richler's best book, and in terms of scope and style it is unmatched by his other works. The parallels between the Gursky family and the Bronfmans are such that the novel 'may be seen as a thinly disguised account of the [Bronfman] family'.[1] While Richler himself denied any similarities, 'one longtime Bronfman associate put it, 'I don't know why Mordecai bothered to change the names.' - Literary Review of Canada, September 2006. Cover creased and dogeared, pages tanned. (ISBN: 9780099877301). Fair.

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