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 manβs land where memory, history, and myth collide. As Ramsay tells his story, it begins to seem that from boyhood,
Fifth Business
β Scribed by Robertson Davies; Gail Godwin
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Year
- 2000;2001
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 200 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0141186151
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β¦ Synopsis
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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