This is a 1997 first edition hardcover of Mordecai Richler's "Barney's Version." This was his tenth and final novel (he died in 2001). It is, like most of his fiction, highly entertaining. The book won the Giller Prize. I am including with the book a 25-year-old cardboard bookmark, in which the five finalists for the Giller Prize in 1997 - including "Barney's Version" - are listed. Besides the Giller Prize, this book also won the Commonwealth Writers Prize and the Stephen Leacock Award for Humour.