Richler widow dead at 90
Mordecai Richler’s widow Florence has died at age 90. She would be the woman played by Rosamund Pike in Barney’s Version, more or less.
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Michael Black 21:56 on 2020-01-10 Permalink
I looked, she was his second wife.
And Daniel was her son, but his father was her previous husband.
Noah and the other three kids were the children of Florence and Mordecai.
I never did know why Noah said to me in 1976 “So you’re Michael Black”. That was after he suddenly apoeared at school, decades later I read he’d been kicked out of a private school.
Kate 10:04 on 2020-01-11 Permalink
Michael, as I recall, the element in the novel that was more or less biographical was that Richler met his second wife as he was marrying his first, and was instantly smitten with her, but hardly in a position to pursue her at that moment. This happens to Barney in the novel (and movie). Eventually they both divorced their first spouses and married each other.