The Independent - London, July 20th, 2001
MORDECAI RICHLER was through and through a Montrealer, writes Frank Gray [further to the obituary by Peter Guttridge and Carmen Callil, 5 July ]. He loved the city for the poor Jewishness of St Urbain Street, the scruffy neighbourhood that was his playground and the source of so much of his writing material, wedged, as it was, between the Waspish, luxurious west end of the city and the poor French east end. He once wrote that while the Jews and French had little in common, one shared fear was that of the Wasp, which neither could understand. "You never knew what they were thinking," he wrote. ...
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