I'm rereading my copy of Mordecai Richler's final novel Barney's Version.→[More:] There's a scene in the book where the narrator, a cantankerous, gruff man with a checkered past is on his honeymoon in Paris with his second wife whom he describes as a 'Jewish-Canadian Princess.' He describes sitting in the hotel room listening to his bride talk on the phone with her mother. The reader only 'hears' one side of the phone conversation and it goes on in an uninteruppted paragraph for a page and a half and is hilarious. There's a word for this literary device but it escpes me. Anyone know it?

Also, are tehre any other Richler fans here? I know he's held in high esteem in his native Canada, but is more spottily appreciated elsewhere. I personally think he's brilliant.