![]() ![]() ![]() 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. OctoMontreal 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 ![]()
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