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SOLOMON GURSKY WAS HERE
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| By: |
Mordecai Richler |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£12.99 |
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£9.48 |
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£3.51 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0099877309 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780099877301 |
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Last available stock.
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Currently 4 available |
| Publisher: |
VINTAGE PUBLISHING |
| Pub. date: |
16 May, 1991 |
| Pages: |
528 |
| Description: |
WINNER OF THE 1990 COMMONWEALTH WRITERS PRIZE, SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 1990Since the age of eleven Moses Berger has been obsessed with the Gursky clan, an insanely wealthy, profoundly seductive family of Jewish-Canadian descent. |
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WINNER OF THE 1990 COMMONWEALTH WRITERS PRIZE, SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 1990Since the age of eleven Moses Berger has been obsessed with the Gursky clan, an insanely wealthy, profoundly seductive family of Jewish-Canadian descent. Now a 52-year-old alcoholic boigrapher, Berger is desperately trying to chronicle the stories of their lives, especially that of the mysterious Solomon Gursky, who may or may not have died in a plane crash.A rich, irreverent and exuberant comic masterpiece from the author of The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz and St Urbain's Horseman. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Vintage |
| Prizes: |
Winner of The Commonwealth Writers Prize 1990 |
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Returnable |
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