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| By Robertson Davies | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Fifth Business is the first novel in the celebrated Deptford Trilogy, which also includes The Manticore and World of Wonders; it also stands alone as the story of a rational man who discovers that the matvelous is only another aspect of the real. "A mature accomplished, and all together remarkable book, one of the best of this or any other season, and it simply cannot be ignored." -The Washington Post Book World- "A marvelously enigmatic novel, elegantly written and driven by irresistible narrative force." -The New York Times- | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Robertson Davies | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Robertson Davies, who died on December 2, 1995, had three succesive careers: first as an actor with the Old Vic Company in England; then as publisher of the Peterborough, Ontario, Wxaminer, and later as a university professor and first Master of Massey College at the University of Toronto, from which he returned in 1981. He wrote more than thirty books, including several speeches, and Belles Lettres, and eleven novels. It was as a novelist that he gained lasting renown, for his Deptford Trilogy-Fifth Business, The Manticore, and World of Wonders. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Fifth Business is a great book if you love variety in your reading. Throughout the book the main charecter does many things. He fights in a war, helps a young women learn how to take care of a baby, and becomes a teacher at a big University. I would recomend this book to anyone who likes action in a book. The action in this book will make you want to never put it down. On my scale from 1 to 10 I would give this book a 10. It is the best book I have read all year.
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