The Independent - London, July 5th, 2001
I first met Mordecai Richler in 1969 when Cocksure, his wonderful comic novel about London in the Sixties, was published in paperback, writes Carmen Callil.
I had never met a funny Canadian before, and Mordecai, seriously funny on the page, was even better in real life. He was round and crumpled, genial and witty. Anyone who wants a good laugh today should read the episode in Cocksure in which a hopelessly well- meaning leftie tries - and fails entirely - to buy non-South African vegetables in a greengrocer's shop. Mordecai was years ahead of his time in his lack of patience for any kind of p...
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