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Fifth Business: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics

Autor Robertson Davies Gail Godwin
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 dec 2000 – vârsta de la 18 ani
Ramsay is a man twice born, a man who has returned from the hell of the battle-grave at Passchendaele in World War I decorated with the Victoria Cross and destined to be caught in a no man's land where memory, history, and myth collide. As Ramsay tells his story, it begins to seem that from boyhood, he has exerted a perhaps mystical, perhaps pernicious, influence on those around him. His apparently innocent involvement in such innocuous events as the throwing of a snowball or the teaching of card tricks to a small boy in the end prove neither innocent nor innocuous."Fifth Business"stands alone as a remarkable story told by a rational man who discovers that the marvelous is only another aspect of the real.
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ISBN-13: 9780141186153
ISBN-10: 0141186151
Pagini: 252
Dimensiuni: 132 x 197 x 27 mm
Greutate: 0.2 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Seria Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics


Notă biografică

Robertson Davies (1913-1995) had three successive careers during the time he became an internationally acclaimed author: actor, publisher, and, finally, professor at the University of Toronto. The author of twelve novels and several volumes of essays and plays, he was the first Canadian to be inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

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The first novel in Davies's celebrated "Deptford Trilogy" introduces Ramsay, a man who returns from World War I decorated with the Victoria Cross who is destined to be caught in a no man's land where memory, history, and myth collide.