I am vindicated in my long-held and widely trumpeted opinion that Richler’s Solomon Gursky Was Here is the first great Canadian novel by this quote found in an old column by Adam Gopnick,
“… makes me want to praise Mordecai Richler’s Solomon Gursky Was Here as the greatest and still not adequately appreciated of all Canadian novels.”

To be vindicated in my view by someone of the statue of Adam Gopnick makes it even sweeter. I’ve read it four times, soon to be five. Read it slowly.