AVITZ avitz by Mordecai Richler is a novel about the life of a young man named Duddy Kravitz growing up on Montreal's St. Urbain street. The novel chronicles his life from when he was a troublesome school boy up until he was a young man of nineteen desperately trying to make something of himself and own his very own piece of land. Along the way to becoming a success Duddy has to stomp on a few toes, and screw over some good friends, and in the end he is left with all the land and money that he ever wanted, but no friends at all. In short D ....