Fifth Business - Couverture souple

Davies, Robertson

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0140167943 ISBN 13 : 9780140167948

Editeur : Penguin Books Ltd, 1977

Synopsis

Book by Davies Robertson

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

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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Biographie de l'auteur :

Robertson Davies (1913-1995) had three successive careers during the time he became an internationally acclaimed author: actor, publisher, and, finally, professor at the University of Toronto. The author of twelve novels and several volumes of essays and plays, he was the first Canadian to be inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Penguin Books Ltd
• Date d'édition: 1977
• ISBN 10: 0140167943
• ISBN 13: 9780140167948
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 266