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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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Fifth business, Robertson Davies
- Lingua
- Pubblicato
- 1980
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- Titolo
- Fifth business
- Lingua
- Inglese
- Autori
- Robertson Davies
- Editore
- Penguin Books
- Pubblicato
- 1980
- Formato
- In brossura
- Pagine
- 266
- ISBN10
- 014004387X
- ISBN13
- 9780140043877
- Prima pubblicazione
- 1970
- Titolo originale
- Fifth Business
- Valutazione
- 4,1 su 5
- Descrizione
- 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.