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Robertson Davies
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Fifth Business |
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No copies available |
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English |
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Hardcover |
| Pages: |
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309 |
| Date: |
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1970-11-23 |
| ISBN: |
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0670312134 |
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Viking Adult |
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1.35 pounds |
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6.4 x 9.3 x 1.2 inches |
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First Edition |
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1 Jonathan May (USA: AL) |
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1 elijah (USA: WI) |
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Product Description
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 proves, in the end, neither innocent nor innocuous. The first novel in the celebrated Deptford Trilogy, Fifth Business stands alone as the remarkable story of a rational man who discovers that the marvelous is only another aspect of the real.
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