An edition of Fifth business: a novel (1970)

Fifth business

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An edition of Fifth business: a novel (1970)

Fifth business

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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 proves, in the end, neither innocent nor innocuous."--BOOK JACKET.

Publish Date
Language
English
Pages
314

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Edition Availability
Cover of: Fifth business
Fifth business
1980, Penguin Books, Penguin (Non-Classics)
in English
Cover of: Fifth business
Fifth business
1971, New American Library
in English
Cover of: Fifth business
Fifth business
1970, Macmillan of Canada
in English

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Edition Notes

The first of three linked novels, the others being The manticore (1972) and World of wonders (c1975).

Published in
Toronto
Genre
Fiction.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.5/4
Library of Congress
PZ4.D258 Fi, PR9199.3.D3 Fi, PR6007.A814 Fi

The Physical Object

Pagination
314 p.
Number of pages
314

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL4676011M
Internet Archive
fifthbusinessnov0000davi
LCCN
77567099
OCLC/WorldCat
147660
Library Thing
370

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