the apprenticeship of duddy kravitz novel

First, as a waiter in a resort hotel, then driving his father's cab at night and selling liquid soap and toilet supplies to factories during the day finally, by producing color films of weddings and bar-mitzvahĬeremonies for proud and prosperous parents. Books are not for Duddy his urge is for action, the kind that propels the dollars toĪfter graduation, Duddy sets his course.

He lives harmoniously with hisįather, Max, a taxi driver with a pandering business as a sideline, and his brother, Lennie, a fine student who is struggling through medical school.

Motherless at an early age, Duddy Squirms and claws his way through the blackboard jungle of Fletcher's Field High School, loathing his teachers and defying the local bad boy Jerry Dingleman, known as The Boy Wonder. For without your own land, his grandfather tells him, you are nobody. But unlike Sammy, once Duddy has outgrown his childhood peculations (stealing and then reselling the spare hockey sticks of the Rangers, peddling pornographic comicīooks, street gambling) his urge is for the honorable, the legitimate, the man-to-man enterprise that will provide him money to buy land. Like Sammy, Duddy is bound to escape from the poverty and humiliation of his boyhood. Man is Duddy Kravitz, a Sammy Glick by any other name, but a broken-field runner rather than one with his eye on the long distance crown. Urbain Street to the borscht belt of the Laurentians and on to the stylish residential heights of Montreal's Outrement. 'The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz' is really the revved-up odyssey of a young man from the squalor of St. For the ring of truth is the one clear note to be found in a book that is sometimes hilariously funny, sometimes brutally pathetic and often unnecessarily vulgar. Urn:oclc:426228473 Republisher_date 20140808065431 Republisher_operator Scandate 20140807065803 Scanner Meteor By Florence Crowther The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz By Mordecai Richler.į, as Keats put it, 'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' then there must be beauty in Mordecai Richler's candid novel of juvenile delinquents Urn:lcp:apprenticeshipof00rich_0:epub:33255a9d-3278-4fbf-aa54-13b4cd1bc61c Extramarc University of Alberta Libraries Foldoutcount 0 Identifier apprenticeshipof00rich_0 Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t13n4x72b Invoice 11 Isbn 9780140021790Ġ140021795 Ocr ABBYY FineReader 9.0 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.6 Ocr_module_version 0.0.13 Openlibrary OL17259594M Openlibrary_edition Internetarchivebookdrive Edition Repr External-identifier

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The apprenticeship of duddy kravitz novel