Solomon Gursky was here

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"He is a ringmaster, making his performers do dazzling backflips without missing a beat"—Time
Moses Berger, son of the failed poet L.B. Berger, is in the grips of an obsession. The Gursky family with its colourful bootlegging history, its bizarre connections with the North and the Inuit, and its wildly eccentric relations, both fasci-nates and infuriates him. His quest to unravel their story leads him to the enigmatic Ephraim Gursky: document forger in Victorian England, sole survivor of the ill-fated Franklin expedition and charismatic religious leader of the Arctic. Of Ephraim's three grandsons, Bemard has fought, wheedled and cheated his way to the head of a liquor empire. His brother Morrie has reluctantly followed along. But how does Ephraim's protégé, Solomon, fit in? Elusive, mysterious and powerful, Solomon Gursky hovers in the background, always out of Moses's grasp, but ptesent—like an omen.
"Hilarious, vulgar, dazzlingly well written."
The Globe and Mail
"Beguiling.... Tovább

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"He is a ringmaster, making his performers do dazzling backflips without missing a beat"—Time
Moses Berger, son of the failed poet L.B. Berger, is in the grips of an obsession. The Gursky family with its colourful bootlegging history, its bizarre connections with the North and the Inuit, and its wildly eccentric relations, both fasci-nates and infuriates him. His quest to unravel their story leads him to the enigmatic Ephraim Gursky: document forger in Victorian England, sole survivor of the ill-fated Franklin expedition and charismatic religious leader of the Arctic. Of Ephraim's three grandsons, Bemard has fought, wheedled and cheated his way to the head of a liquor empire. His brother Morrie has reluctantly followed along. But how does Ephraim's protégé, Solomon, fit in? Elusive, mysterious and powerful, Solomon Gursky hovers in the background, always out of Moses's grasp, but ptesent—like an omen.
"Hilarious, vulgar, dazzlingly well written."
The Globe and Mail
"Beguiling. malevolently comic. . . extravagantly ad- | venturous .cheerfully misanthropic. unexpectedly playful, even tender." The Village Voice
"A big, muscular, ambitious book there can be no deny-ing its energy, its irreverence or its wisdom."
The Washington Post
"The wit, depth and wickedness of this resonant növel suggests a happy synthesis of Dickens, Malcolm Lowry and Philip Roth This is a very fine work "
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