Fifth business
by Robertson Davies
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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.
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"Manufactured in Canada"
"Reprinted... 1980 (twice)"
The first novel in the "Deptford trilogy" that includes The manticore and World of wonders.
MASS copy 2: Publisher's presentation copy.
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