McClelland & Stewart, Toronto, 1989, reprint.  ISBN 0-7710-9864-2.  MMPB, 441 pages including Afterword by Eric Wright.  Good reading copy; some edge and cover wear, creases and reading creases; binding sound.  Interior clean and unmarked with lightly tanned pages.  ‘Through a suspenseful pattern of dramatic flashbacks, Mordecai Richler reassembles the shattered life of one Joshua Shapiro.  His father an honest crook, his mother an erotic dancer, Joshua has overcome in inauspicious beginnings in the Jewish ghetto of Montreal to become a celebrated television writer.  But middle-aged Joshua is not a happy man.  Incapacitated by a freak accident, anguished by the disappearance of his wife, Joshua is beleaguered by the press and tormented by the ghosts of his youth.’ (from rear wrap)