This author's last work was a posthumously published nonfiction history of the game of snookersubtitled The Game and the Characters who Play It. He wrote a novel in which film director JakeHersch is put on trial in London after becoming embroiled in a sex scandal and fantasizing about thelife of his Nazi-hunting cousin Joey. This author of St. Urbain's Horseman wrote a novel in the formof the Alzheimer's stricken memoirs of the title character, who is aquitted at the murder trial of hisfriend Boogie. The title character of his most famous work works with an epileptic projectionistnamed Virgil and hires a blacklisted director to produce (*) Bar Mitzvah films. For 10 p
This author's last work was a posthumously published nonfiction history of the game of snookersubtitled The Game and the Characters who Play It. He wrote a novel in which film director JakeHersch is put on trial in London after becoming embroiled in a sex scandal and fantasizing about thelife of his Nazi-hunting cousin Joey. This author of St. Urbain's Horseman wrote a novel in the formof the Alzheimer's stricken memoirs of the title character, who is aquitted at the murder trial of hisfriend Boogie. The title character of his most famous work works with an epileptic projectionistnamed Virgil and hires a blacklisted director to produce (*) Bar Mitzvah films. For 10 points, name thisJewish-Canadian author of Solomon Gursky was Here who wrote about a greedy and ambitious Jewishyouth from Montreal in The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz.
This author's last work was a posthumously published nonfiction history of the game of snookersubtitled The Game and the Characters who Play It.
Mordecai Richler