Joshua Then and Now

Blurb

Joshua Then and Now is a semi-autobiographical novel written by Mordecai Richler, first published in 1980 by McClelland and Stewart. Richler adapted it into the feature film Joshua Then and Now, starring James Woods, Alan Arkin, and Gabrielle Lazure; directed by Ted Kotcheff who had previously directed Richler's The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz.
The book is a humorous, sarcastic, and strangely sentimental rendering based on his neighborhood when he was growing up in Montreal, Canada and then the triumphs and disasters of a successful writer. Joseph Heller described it as "wildly funny".