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A 1997 novel by Canadian author [[Mordecai Richler]], which turned out to be his final work of fiction before his death in 2001. Later made into a 2010 film directed by Richard Lewis.▼
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▲A 1997 novel by Canadian author [[Mordecai Richler]],
The novel is the life story of one Barney Panofsky, a rather grumpy Montreal Jew ([[Author Avatar|just like the protagonist of every other Mordecai Richler novel]]) who is famous for having three wives (and three divorces) and for having been accused of murdering his close friend Boogie circa 1960, for which he was acquitted at trial but judged guilty in the court of public opinion. A lifelong producer of crappy TV shows that
The novel won the [[Giller Prize]] in 1997.
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* [[Canon Welding]]: In the same universe as several of Richler's previous novels, including ''[[The Apprenticeship
* [[
▲* [[Canon Welding]]: In the same universe as several of Richler's previous novels, including ''[[The Apprenticeship Of Duddy Kravitz]]'' (Duddy puts in a few cameo appearances).
▲* [[Daddys Girl]]: Barney's daughter Kate is the most supportive of his three children. He himself professes to be confused by this, since he wasn't really ''that'' involved in her childhood compared to Miriam.
* [[Dirty Old Man]]: Barney grows up to be one.
* [[Footnote Fever]]: Barney's manuscript is littered with mistaken allusions to film, literature, and then-current events, which his son Michael notes and corrects with footnotes. {{spoiler|Subsequently, this turns out to be intentional on Barney's part to make Michael, who he thinks to be insufficiently literate, read all those books. This was actually unnecessary, as Michael had in fact already done so.}}
* [[Hypocritical Humor]]
* [[Jerkass]]: Many people, including Barney himself.
* [[Jerk
* [[Jewish Mother]]: Averted. Barney notes that unlike this stereotype, his Jewish mother was generally uninterested in how he was doing at school and spent most of her time listening to the radio. This is Richler's [[Take That]] at his own mother, who he hated.
* [[Literary Agent Hypothesis]]: The novel is Barney Panofsky's autobiography, edited and footnoted by his son Michael.
* [[Mrs. Robinson]]: Barney's teacher.
* [[N
* [[No Name Given]]: Barney's second wife.
* [[Sitcom Arch Nemesis]]: Terry McIver.
* [[Soap Within a Show]]: Barney is the producer of a sleazy, cliched, and long-running soap opera named "O'Malley of the North".
* [[Ugly Guy, Hot Wife]]:
* [[Unreliable Narrator]]: Barney openly acknowledges taking potshots at various people he doesn't like, but does try to remember things as best he can. The footnotes and his son call to attention whether he was remembering incorrectly in places.
* [[Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist]]: Barney, in more than a few episodes of his life.
* [[Women Are Wiser]]: Miriam (wife #3) is this; however, Clara (wife #1) is a decided aversion.
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