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Solomon Gursky Was Here is a novel by Canadian author Mordecai Richler first published by Viking Canada in 1989 . Summary. The novel tells of several generations of the fictional Gursky family, who are connected to several disparate events in the history of Canada, including the Franklin Expedition and rum-running.
- Mordecai Richler
- 1989
Jan 1, 1991 · Mordecai Richler's penultimate novel, and certainly his most ambitious, Solomon Gursky Was Here is a yarn spun around the Gursky brothers - Bernard, Morrie, and Solomon - kings of a whiskey empire forged from bootlegging, millionaires many times over, and based on Canada's Bronfman family.
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- 1989
- Mordecai Richler
- Mordecai Richler
Oct 17, 1989 · The basic plot of “Solomon Gursky was Here” focuses on the rise and exploits of the notoriously wealthy and powerful (and of course, highly dysfunctional) Gursky family, and on the self-destructive alcoholic would-be scholar, Moses Berger, who has become obsessed with documenting their story.
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- Paperback
Jul 1, 1991 · Mordecai Richler's penultimate novel, and certainly his most ambitious, Solomon Gursky Was Here is a yarn spun around the Gursky brothers - Bernard, Morrie, and Solomon - kings of a whiskey empire forged from bootlegging, millionaires many times over, and based on Canada's Bronfman family.
- (71)
- Mordecai Richler
Dec 11, 2020 · 413 pages ; 25 cm. Moses Berger, writer, salmon-fisher and drunk, becomes hooked on the history of Gursky, a 19th-century bootlegger, and follows a trail which takes him from London to the Orkneys and to Arctic Canada where strange Eskimoes practice Judaic rites.
May 17, 2016 · Mordecai Richler's penultimate novel, and certainly his most ambitious, Solomon Gursky Was Here is a yarn spun around the Gursky brothers - Bernard, Morrie, and Solomon - kings of a whiskey empire forged from bootlegging, millionaires many times over, and based on Canada's Bronfman family.
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- Mordecai Richler
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Perhaps inspired by Canada's Bronfman family, Richler creates the three Gursky brothers, bootleggers turned liquor industry tycoons, who are descended from the legendary rapscallion,...
