The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz is a novel by Canadian author Mordecai Richler . It was published in 1959 by André Deutsch , and adapted to the screen in 1974.
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85-610: A job as a waiter at a hotel in Ste. Agathe . He stumbles upon a beautiful lake while out with his soon-to-be lover and " Girl Friday ", Yvette. He sees that the lake has tremendous potential as a summer resort. He returns to Montreal and starts a company to produce bar mitzvah films. To this end, he hires Friar, an alcoholic, avant-garde filmmaker blacklisted in the United States, for his communist tendencies. Since Duddy's childhood, his father, Max, had told him stories about Jerry Dingleman,
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119-481: Is left to show the movies seven days a week while trying to oversee movie production. Meanwhile, Uncle Benjy finds that he has a terminal illness. He tries to mend fences with Duddy, who rebuffs his request that the two see each other more frequently during his final days. Uncle Benjy's death acts as a trigger for Duddy, who has a nervous breakdown and refuses to leave his room for a week. He loses his clients and must declare bankruptcy and surrender all his possessions to
136-471: Is nobody," and he believes land ownership to be life's ultimate goal and the means by which a man becomes a somebody. Duddy begins to move towards this goal by working for his Uncle Benjy. Their relationship is strained: Uncle Benjy, a wealthy clothing manufacturer with socialist sympathies, has always favored Duddy's brother Lennie, who wants to become a doctor. He takes a dim view of Duddy's commercial ambitions, seeing them as avaricious and crass. Duddy takes
153-609: Is set mostly in poor districts of Montreal, such as St. Urbain Street , with mention of wealthier districts, such as Westmount and Outremont . Parts of the story take place in the Laurentian Mountains in the resort town of Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts and surrounding areas. The novel focuses on the young life of Duddy Kravitz, a poor Jewish boy raised in Montreal, Quebec. As a child, he is told by his grandfather that "a man without land
170-449: The government (except for the land, which was in Yvette's name due to Duddy being considered a minor). After Duddy recovers, he invites Yvette and Virgil to move with him into his uncle's mansion, which Duddy inherited on the condition that the house not be rented out or sold. When he hears that the last bit of land around the lake is for sale, he exhausts his remaining contacts trying to raise
187-519: The guy who has acquired all of the land surrounding the lake in the Laurentians, and when Duddy, ordering servings for everyone while he has no cash to pay, gestures to his father, he is answered by the patron, "That's all right, sir. We'll mark it." He has made it. He's become a "somebody". He grabs his father and spins him around, repeating, "You see." The Kravitz family Other characters Many of Richler's novels were interconnected, taking place in
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#1732848611523204-624: The local "Boy Wonder" whose rags-to-riches story is canonical among the residents of St. Urbain Street . Looking for help with his film company, Duddy attempts to engage Dingleman. The two travel to New York City, but Duddy fails to secure assistance from the "Boy Wonder", who sees him as a naive upstart and uses him to ferry a package of heroin across the Canada-U.S. border. On the way back from New York, he meets Virgil, an American with pinball machines for sale. Back in Montreal, Duddy rents an apartment and an office for himself and Yvette and begins buying
221-597: The money he needs but comes up short. Pressed for time and desperate, Duddy forges Virgil's signature on a cheque to get the money. Yvette tells Duddy's grandfather, who is embarrassed and unhappy with the way Duddy has obtained the land. This theft prompts Yvette and Virgil to move out of the mansion and forbid Duddy to see them again. In the end, Duddy has no friends left. But in the Montreal St. Urbain Street joint where his taxi-driving father spends most of his time entertaining regulars with stories, someone recognizes Duddy as
238-478: The plots of land around the lake. After Friar tries unsuccessfully to seduce Yvette, he abandons his work with Duddy. Duddy starts a new movie distribution business and hires Virgil as a travelling projectionist. A few months later, Virgil, an epileptic (a fact known to Duddy when he gave Virgil the job), experiences a seizure while driving, crashes, and is paralyzed from the waist down. Yvette, blaming Duddy, takes Virgil to Ste. Agathe, where she cares for him. Duddy
255-555: The same narrative world. Jacob Hersh, a minor character in this novel, is the central character in St. Urbain's Horseman (1971); other Duddy characters are referenced in some of Richler's later works. Aging in more-or-less real time, Duddy Kravitz makes brief, comic appearances in both St. Urbain's Horseman and Barney's Version (1997). As he ages, Duddy never loses his drive to make money, and in his final appearance in Barney's Version , Duddy
272-417: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Boy Wonder . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Boy_Wonder&oldid=1247014698 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
289-500: The title Boy Wonder . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Boy_Wonder&oldid=1247014698 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (novel) The satirical novel
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