 Robertson Davies, Gail Godwin Fifth Business (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) |
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Robertson Davies, Gail Godwin Fifth Business (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) |
 | Robertson Davies, Gail GodwinFormat: Paperback, 272ppPublished: January 2001 Publisher: Penguin Classics |
| Publisher info: 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. One of the splendid literary enterprises of this decade. (Peter Prescott, Newsweek) A marvelously enigmatic novel, elegantly written and driven by irresistible narrative force. (The New York Times) Author Bio: 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 12 novels and several volumes of essays and plays, he was the first Canadian to be inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. |