The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz

Mordecai Richler's 1959 novel — about Duddy Kravitz's obsessive pursuit of land and success in Montreal's Jewish community — the definitive Canadian Jewish novel and one of the great portraits of naked ambition.

Creates the definitive Canadian Jewish ambition novel — Duddy Kravitz is the Canadian equivalent of Sammy Glick: driven, morally compromised, fundamentally sympathetic; the novel's ambivalence about ambition (Duddy succeeds and destroys everything meaningful in the process) is the most complex treatment of immigrant ambition in Canadian fiction.