HOME SWEET HOME: MY CANADIAN ALBUM. Richler, Mordecai. Toronto, McClelland and Stewart, c1984. 291pp, cloth, $19.95, ISBN 0-7710-7488-3. CIP Grades 11 and up Reviewed by Philip K. Harber Volume 13 Number 2 1985 March These essays cover twenty-four years of the life of a Canadian writer who spent twenty-one years away from Canada, and their subject matter varies from the trivial to the historic, e.g., from a visit to Karsh, the photographer of the famous, to a history of the Montreal Canadiens hockey team and the October 1970 crisis in Quebec. Some, like "My father's life" or "St. Urbain Street then and now," give an insight into the stuff of Richler's novels. Others, like the view from Hollywood (in "Making a movie") serve to put Canadians in their place (i.e., in the frozen North). Much of this book seems to have been written with American or English readers in mind, and thus seems redundant or superficial to a Canadian. Useful in our high school or public libraries for the generations who do not remember Beliveau or Lafleur. Philip K. Harber, Toronto Board of Education, Toronto, Ont.