The Deptford Trilogy: Fifth Business; The Manticore; World of Wonders Revised Edition Contributor(s): Davies, Robertson (Author), Link, Kelly (Foreword by), Dirda, Michael (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 0140147551 ISBN-13: 9780140147551 Publisher: Penguin Books OUR PRICE: $28.80 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 1990 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction |
Dewey: FIC |
LCCN: 90007183 |
Lexile Measure: 1080 |
Series: Deptford Trilogy |
Physical Information: 1.5" H x 5.08" W x 7.84" (1.19 lbs) 896 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: The complete volume of Robertson Davies's acclaimed trilogy, featuring Fifth Business, The Manticore, and World of Wonders, with a new foreword by Kelly Link Fifth Business 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. The Manticore World of Wonders |