Gary Dexter

Alternative reading | 25 September 2010

On Snooker (2001) by Mordecai Richler

  • On Snooker

    Mordecai Richler

The cover of On Snooker shows the Queen Mother sizing up a shot, making a passable bridge but rather failing to get behind the cue. The book is by Mordecai Richler, the great Canadian novelist and essayist, author of The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz and Barney’s Version, who died in 2001.

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