When a sixty-seven-year-old Canadian rascal named Bernard Panofsky decides to write "the true story of my wasted life." the result is Barney's Version, Mordecai Richler's wickedly funny blend of satire, social commentary, and brilliant introspection on the state of contemporary life.
Hoping to rebut the charges about him made in a rival's autobiography Barney feels compelled to pen his account of events. From his bohemian misadventures during the 1950s in Paris to the fortune he amassed through his trashy TV company Totally Unnecessary Productions and the three women he married, he quickly proves that his memory may be slipping, but his bile isn't. He skewers feminists, politicians, the bourgeoisie, fads, social movements, and most of all himself. And when it comes to being charged with the murder of his own best friend -- caught in bed with the second Mrs. Panofsky -- Barney's version is as contradictory and slippery as real life right up to its astonishing end.
Wildly vulgar, superbly ironic, and brilliantly manic, Barney's Version is Mordecai Richler's comic masterpiece, the great work of a satirist at the top of his game.
Hoping to rebut the charges about him made in a rival's autobiography Barney feels compelled to pen his account of events. From his bohemian misadventures during the 1950s in Paris to the fortune he amassed through his trashy TV company Totally Unnecessary Productions and the three women he married, he quickly proves that his memory may be slipping, but his bile isn't. He skewers feminists, politicians, the bourgeoisie, fads, social movements, and most of all himself. And when it comes to being charged with the murder of his own best friend -- caught in bed with the second Mrs. Panofsky -- Barney's version is as contradictory and slippery as real life right up to its astonishing end.
Wildly vulgar, superbly ironic, and brilliantly manic, Barney's Version is Mordecai Richler's comic masterpiece, the great work of a satirist at the top of his game.
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Hardback Editions
July 1999 : Hardback
| Title: Barney's Version Author(s): Mordecai Richler ISBN: 0-517-46273-7 / 978-0-517-46273-7 (USA edition) Publisher: Random House Value Publishing Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
1998 : Hardback
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December 1997 : Hardback
| Title: Barney's Version Author(s): Mordecai Richler ISBN: 0-679-40418-X / 978-0-679-40418-7 (USA edition) Publisher: Knopf Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
September 1997 : Hardback
| Title: Barney's Version Author(s): Mordecai Richler ISBN: 0-7011-6272-4 / 978-0-7011-6272-6 (UK edition) Publisher: Chatto & Windus Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
1997 : Hardback
| Title: Barney's version Author(s): Mordecai Richler ISBN: 0-676-97078-8 / 978-0-676-97078-4 (USA edition) Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
1996 : Hardback
| Title: Barney's Version : A Novel Author(s): Mordecai Richler Publisher: Knopf Availability: Amazon More details... |
Paperback Editions
January 2011 : Paperback
| Title: Barney's Version (Movie Tie-in Edition) (Vintage International) Author(s): Mordecai Richler ISBN: 0-307-74109-5 / 978-0-307-74109-7 (USA edition) Publisher: Vintage Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
January 2011 : Paperback
| Title: Barney's Version: A Novel Author(s): Mordecai Richler ISBN: 0-09-955446-1 / 978-0-09-955446-2 (UK edition) Publisher: Vintage Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
August 2010 : Paperback
| Title: Barney's Version (Movie Tie-in Edition) Author(s): Mordecai Richler ISBN: 0-307-40112-X / 978-0-307-40112-0 (USA edition) Publisher: Vintage Canada Availability: Amazon Amazon CA More details... |
May 2010 : Paperback
| Title: Barney's Version (Vintage International) Author(s): Mordecai Richler ISBN: 0-307-47688-X / 978-0-307-47688-3 (USA edition) Publisher: Vintage Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
March 1999 : Paperback
| Title: Barney's Version: A Novel Author(s): Mordecai Richler ISBN: 0-671-02846-4 / 978-0-671-02846-6 (USA edition) Publisher: Washington Square Press Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
October 1998 : Paperback
| Title: Barney's Version: A Novel Author(s): Mordecai Richler ISBN: 0-09-993920-7 / 978-0-09-993920-7 (UK edition) Publisher: Vintage Availability: Amazon UK More details... |
1998 : Paperback
| Title: Barney's Version Author(s): Mordecai Richler ISBN: 0-676-97174-1 / 978-0-676-97174-3 (USA edition) Publisher: Random House of Canada, Limited Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
January 1997 : Paperback
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Audio Editions
November 2003 : Audio CD
| Title: Barney's Version Author(s): Mordecai Richler ISBN: 0-660-19044-3 / 978-0-660-19044-0 (Canada (English speaking) edition) Publisher: Mordecail Richler Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
Other Editions
December 2011 : Kindle edition
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