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Fifth Business

✍ Scribed by Robertson Davies

Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
Year: 1970
Tongue: en-US
Weight: 184 KB
Edition: New Canadian Library eBook (2015)
Category: Fiction
ISBN: 077102777X
ASIN: B014FRVNCC

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Paperback, 266 pages
Published 1970
New Canadian Library eBook (2015)
The first book in Robertson Davies' celebrated Deptford Trilogy, Fifth Business stands alone as the story of a rational man who discovers that the marvelous is only another aspect of the real. Published as an eBook for the first time.
Fifth Business, which one critic said was "as masterfully executed as anything in the history of the novel," might be described simply as the life of a schoolteacher named Dunstan Ramsay. But such a description would not even suggest the dark currents of love, ambition, vengeance, and death that flow through this powerful work, cast in the form of Ramsay's memoirs.
"An enigmatic novel, elegantly written and driven by irresistible narrative force." The New York Times

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