Cocksure is a savagely funny satire on television, movies, and the entertainment industry. This is Mordecai Richler at his most caustic and wicked best. From the Hardcover edition. Cocksure is a savagely funny satire on television, movies, and the entertainment www.doorway.ru is Mordecai Richler at his most caustic and wicked best.4/5. Cocksure evokes the outrageous and bawdy years of the 'Swingin' Sixties'. Mordechai Richler has assembled the most bizarre gallery of types - Mortimer Griffin, worried about impotence and with good Edition Details. Professional Reviews. Format: Paperback/5(5).
Mordecai Richler CC (Janu - July 3, ) was a Canadian writer. His best known works are The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz () and Barney's Version (). His novel St. Urbain's Horseman and novel Solomon Gursky Was Here were shortlisted for the Man Booker www.doorway.ru is also well known for the Jacob Two-Two fantasy series for children. Pre-publication book reviews and features keeping readers and industry influencers in the know since Mordecai Richler was born in and raised in the working-class Jewish neighbourhood around St. Urbain Street, attending Sir George Williams College (now a part of Concordia University).As a novelist, journalist, screenwriter, and editor, Richler spent much of his career chronicling, celebrating, and criticizing the Montreal and the Canada of his youth.
COCKSURE is the wittiest, most amusing Richler book I have read so far. In COCKSURE Richler satirizes political correctness and reverse discrimination. In the world of the book, schoolchildren perform Christmas plays by the Marquis de Sade, and political correctness in general runs amuck. Cocksure is a novel by Mordecai Richler. It was first published in by McClelland and Stewart. A satirical work, the novel centres on Mortimer Griffin, a middle-class Anglican from Caribou, Ontario who has built a successful career as a publisher and editor in s London, England. When a Hollywood mogul buys Griffin's publishing house, Griffin is suddenly forced to confront the potential impact that not being Jewish may have on his career and his sex life. Cocksure is a savagely funny satire on television, movies, and the entertainment industry. This is Mordecai Richler at his most caustic and wicked best. From the Hardcover edition.
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