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  Somewhat later, he and I left another social occasion where Florence was present, and Mordecai said, “She’s mine. I want her.” “Mordecai, she’s married, you’re married. Are you crazy?” “I don’t care. I want her and I’m going to take her.” When both their marriages ruptured, Florence let him do so, and she came into my life as well – the best friend one could ask for.

  Acknowledgements

  I would like to thank Messrs. Faber & Faber Limited, London, for permission to quote translations, by Usa Barea, from the poems of F. García Lorca and Antonio Machado (Lorca, by Arturo Barea, 1946): and Messrs. Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, London, for permission to quote a translation, by M. Friedlander, Ph.D.; from Moses Maimonides (The Guide for the Perplexed, 1947).

  I would also like the thank Cathy Boudreau, Joyce Weiner, Bill Weintraub, and Michael Sayers, for the generous help and encouragement they gave me in the preparation of this novel.

  M.R.

  BY MORDECAI RICHLER

  ESSAYS

  Hunting Tigers Under Glass: Essays and Reports (1968)

  Shovelling Trouble (1972)

  Notes on an Endangered Species and Others (1974)

  The Great Comic Book Heroes and Other Essays (1978)

  Home Sweet Home: My Canadian Album (1984)

  Broadsides: Reviews and Opinions (1990)

  Belling the Cat: Essays, Reports, and Opinions (1998)

  FICTION

  The Acrobats (1954)

  Son of a Smaller Hero (1955)

  A Choice of Enemies (1957)

  The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1959)

  The Incomparable Atuk (1963)

  Cocksure (1968)

  The Street (1969)

  St. Urbain’s Horseman (1971)

  Joshua Then and Now (1980)

  Solomon Gursky Was Here (1989)

  Barney’s Version (1997)

  FICTION FOR YOUNG ADULTS

  Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang (1975)

  Jacob Two-Two and the Dinosaur (1987)

  Jacob Two-Two’s First Spy Case (1995)

  HISTORY

  Oh Canada! Oh Quebec!:

  Requiem for a Divided Country (1992)

  This Year in Jerusalem (1994)

  SPORTS

  On Snooker (2001)

  Dispatches from the Sporting Life (2002)

  TRAVEL

  Images of Spain (1977)

 


 

  Mordecai Richler, The Acrobats

 


 

 
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