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Original Title:	The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
ISBN:	0671028472 (ISBN13: 9780671028473)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Montreal, Quebec (Montréal, Québec)(Canada)

The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz

Mordecai Richler

Paperback | Pages: 384 pages

Rating: 3.72 | 7741 Users | 276 Reviews

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Title	:	The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
Author	:	Mordecai Richler
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 384 pages
Published	:	March 1st 1999 by Gallery Books (first published 1959)
Categories	:	Fiction. Cultural. Canada. Classics. Literature. Canadian Literature

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From Mordecai Richler, one of our greatest satirists, comes one of literature's most delightful characters, Duddy Kravitz -- in a novel that belongs in the pantheon of seminal twentieth century books. Duddy -- the third generation of a Jewish immigrant family in Montreal -- is combative, amoral, scheming, a liar, and totally hilarious. From his street days tormenting teachers at the Jewish academy to his time hustling four jobs at once in a grand plan to "be somebody," Duddy learns about living -- and the lesson is an outrageous roller-coaster ride through the human comedy. As Richler turns his blistering commentary on love, money, and politics, The Apprenticeship Of Duddy Kravitz becomes a lesson for us all...in laughter and in life.

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Ratings: 3.72 From 7741 Users | 276 Reviews

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The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz is a kind of bildungsroman for an anti-hero. We first meet Duddy through his Scottish history teacher, the tired and broken Mr. MacPherson, who earns Duddys enmity when he insults Duddys father and quickly finds out that he has crossed the wrong boy. From the first, Mordecai Richler establishes that Duddy is a bully and prone to holding a grudge. Indeed, Duddys long memory figures prominently in a novel that is, as its title implies, his personal journey into

Wonderful, witty and sharply observed.

This was a reread, slowly, over the last month or so. I am not sure what to say about it. I can't say it's my absolutely favourite Mordecai Richler - Solomon Gursky Was Here is probably that. However, it's certainly up there as an accomplishment, if not exactly a pleasure. Duddy is one of Richler's great anti-heroes, and because he is so thoroughly that, it makes him difficult to write about.Note: The rest of this review has been withdrawn due to the changes in Goodreads policy and enforcement.

In The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, Mordecai Richler tells the tale of Duddy -- a young Jew from a poor, 1940s Montreal St. Urbain Street neighbourhood. Duddy is a complicated character. He has a rough-and-tumble childhood, acts out in school, and becomes a n'er-do-well and sort of gang leader, who few expect to succeed, unlike his 'gifted' older brother, Lennie. Duddy doesn't receive the same love and affection from his father or wealthy uncle that Lennie receives, and only his grandfather,

A man without land indeed,

An entertaining coming-of-age, North American immigrant tale, with a well drawn, lovably roguish, morally wobbly protagonist. I enjoyed it, yet it felt instantly familiar, y'know? Maybe it's the Saul Bellow territory...young man on the make, etc; cast of spivs and strivers; the smell of fried liver. Or even Phillip Roth or Updike. I slip into the same mode. I love them. It's something that often happens when I read north American novels of the fifties and sixties: everything goes Instagram

Its not what you achieve but how you achieve it...salutory ending. If the start feels difficult, please persevere. It takes flight about page one hundred and the altitude keeps climbing. For writers there is a terrific lesson here in how to keep a reader entranced when the main character is morally dubious.