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 (rĭch′lər), Mordecai 1931-2001.
Canadian writer whose novels, based on his working-class Jewish background, include The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1959) and Saint Urbain's Horseman (1971).
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Richler

(ˈrɪʃlə)
n
(Biography) Mordecai. 1931–2001, Canadian novelist. His novels include St Urbain's Horseman (1971), Solomon Gursky Was Here (1990), and Barney's Version (1997)
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Not the posh restaurant in the hotel famous for its luxurious guest service, succulent smoked salmon, and legendary patronage by Montreal writer Mordecai Richler, single malt whiskey in one hand, cigar in the other, book open before him--Joshua then and even now to me--the raconteur crying down the absurd walls of The Establishment, Francophone and Anglophone alike.
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