THE APPRENTICESHIP OF DUDDY KRAVITZ The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz 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