description: Told in the first person, it relates the life of Barney panofsky-who smokes too many cigars, drinks too much whiskey; whose trashy TV company, Totally Useless Productions, has made him a small fortune; Whose three wives include a martyred feminist icon, a quintessential JCP (Jewish-Canadian Princess), and the incomparable Miriam, the perfect wife, lover, and mother--alas, now married to another man; who recalls with nostalgia and pain his young manhood in the paris of the early fifties, and his lifelong passion for wine, either did or didn't murder his best friend, Boogie, after discovering him in bed with The Second Mrs. Panofsky; whose satirical eye for the idiocies of today's Quebee separatists (as well as for every other kind of political correctness) manages to offend his entire acquaintanceship (and will soon be offending readers everywhere); and whose memory--though not his bile--is, in his sixty-seventh year, definitely slipping...
language: English
title: Barney's Version
titlecomplete: Barney's Version
genres: Fiction, Canadian Literature, Canada, Jewish, Humor, Literature, Classics, Novels, Contemporary, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 12103
places: Paris, Quebec (Québec)
awards: awardedAt: 883641600000
name: Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal, awardedAt: 852105600000
name: Scotiabank Giller Prize, awardedAt: 883641600000
name: Commonwealth Writers' Prize
category: Best Book in Caribbean and Canada, awardedAt: 852105600000
name: Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, awardedAt: 883641600000
name: Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 1357027200000
name: Premi Llibreter de narrativa
category: Altres literatures
publisher: Mordecail Richler