Fifth Business (tdt-1)

✍ Scribed by Davies, Robertson

• Book ID: 109664334
• Publisher: Penguin Group
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 178 KB
• Series: The Deptford Trilogy 1
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 0141186151

✦ 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.