num_pages: 432
description: Ebullient and perverse, thrice married, Barney Panofsky has always clung to two cherished beliefs: life is absurd and nobody truly ever understands anybody else. But when his sworn enemy publicly states that Barney is a wife abuser, an intellectual fraud and probably a murderer, he is driven to write his own memoirs. Charged with comic energy and a wicked disregard for any pieties whatsoever, Barney's Version is a brilliant portrait of a man whom Mordecai Richler has made uniquely memorable for all time. It is also an unforgettable love story, a story about family and the riches of friendship.
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: Vintage Canada