The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
Mordecai Richler
1959
Duddy drove to Montreal the next morning, picked up his stuff, and returned to Ste. Agathe by bus the same evening. Yvette met him at the station. “Hey,” he said, “did you see the paper? They raided Dingleman’s joint. For real, though. There’s going to be a trial.”
The house Yvette had rented for Virgil and herself was near the tracks, some…
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