978-0-7735-3355-4 April 2008
Of his prospective biography, Oscar Wilde said it "lends a new terror to death." There are two reasons authors, especially famous ones, dread the genre. First, literary biographies get too much wrong; second, they get too much right. Both occurrences are inevitable; both go with the territory.
978-7735-3355-4 April 2008
As I approached the three-quarter mark of Mordecai Richler: Leaving St.Urbain, I found myself reading more and more slowly, and even occasionally setting the book aside. Finally, I realized that I didn’t want the biography to end. Mordecai Richler seemed so vividly alive that I wanted to keep hanging out with the irascible old master.
