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Fifth business / Robertson Davies ; with an introduction by Gail Godwin.
Van Pelt Library PR9199.3.D3 F5 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Davies, Robertson, 1913-1995.
- Series:
- Penguin twentieth-century classics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- History teachers--Fiction.
- History teachers.
- World War, 1914-1918--Veterans--Fiction.
- World War, 1914-1918.
- Veterans.
- Christian hagiography--Authorship--Fiction.
- Christian hagiography.
- Christian hagiography--Authorship.
- Bachelors--Fiction.
- Bachelors.
- Canada--Fiction.
- Canada.
- Genre:
- Didactic fiction.
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 252 pages ; 20 cm.
- Other Title:
- 5th business
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Penguin Books, 2001.
- Summary:
- Ramsay is a man born twice, 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 myths 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 proves, in the end, neither innocent or innocuous.
- ISBN:
- 0141186151
- OCLC:
- 45008514
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