Mordecai Richler’s dazzling tale of a clever young rogue who makes good or at least makes money established him as one of the great comic writers. Determined to escape Montreal’s Jewish ghetto, young Duddy takes to heart...

While things were bad at home for Jacob, things are far worse on Slimer's Isle, where sharks are in the waters surrounding the place and a bad-tempered, child-hating strongman named Hooded Fang runs the show. Reprint. NYT.