Barney's Version: A Novel

Mordecai Richler

Before his brain began to shrink, Barney Panofsky clung to two cherished beliefs. Life was absurd, and nobody ever truly understood any-body else. Even his friends tend to agree that Barney is 'a wife-abuser, an intellectual fraud, a purveyor of pap, a drunk with a pen-chant for violence and probably a ...