description: Ebullient and perverse, thrice married, Barney Panofsky has always clung to two cherished 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.From the Trade Paperback edition.
language: English
title: Barney's Version
titlecomplete: Barney's Version
genres: Classics, Humor, Jewish, Novels, Literature, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Fiction, Canadian Literature, Canada
ratings_count: 12100
places: Quebec (Québec), Paris
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: Random House Value Publishing