![]() ![]() His dream is to one day build a massive resort on the land and get rich. Then he begins shooting and selling bar mitzvah movies, showing popular films at summer camps, working as a middleman in the scrap metal racket, and he slowly buys up pieces of land around a hidden lake in the countryside. After high school, he works at a summer resort and, when home, he drives his dad’s taxi during off-hours. He starts off as a teenager selling porn and pilfered hockey sticks to classmates. Urbain Street neighbourhood, where “the boys grew up dirty and sad, spiky also, like grass beside the railroad tracks.”Įarly on in the book, Duddy’s grandfather tells Duddy, “A man without land is nobody.’’ Duddy internalizes this, repeats the statement regularly (seven times throughout the book), and devotes his life to becoming a somebody. ![]() Duddy is from Montreal’s Jewish working class St. It is the story of Duddy Kravitz, a smart-ass kid with ambition, a fast mouth, and little time for education. ![]() Mordecai Richler’s The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, published in 1959, is a hilarious and rambunctious novel that gives little space to scenery or introspection. ![]() In an attempt to make himself a better Canadian, Craig MacBride is reading and reviewing the books that shaped this country. ![]()
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