Posted on 09/12/06
He never really left St. Urbain
Mordecai Richler Was Here:Selected WritingsBy Mordecai RichlerEdited by Jonathan WebbMadison Press, 432 pages, $34.95Bookish assertions can take many forms. Consider the freight and even the weight of Mordecai Richler Was Here. The volume is thick as a dictionary and nearly as hefty. The paper is closer to parchment and the binding is sturdy. Beneath a dust jacket featuring original art by Aislin and a floor-to-ceiling photo of the author can be found the black cover boards and spine of silver lettering familiar to collections by French philosophes. The tassel bookmark, colour co-ordinated with the jacket, flirts with overkill.
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