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| Title | : | Fifth Business (The Deptford Trilogy #1) |
| Author | : | Robertson Davies |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 252 pages |
| Published | : | 2002 by Penguin (first published 1970) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Cultural. Canada. Classics. Historical. Historical Fiction. Literature |
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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.Itemize Books Supposing Fifth Business (The Deptford Trilogy #1)
| Original Title: | Fifth Business |
| ISBN: | 0141181362 (ISBN13: 9780141181363) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | The Deptford Trilogy #1 |
| Characters: | Dunstan Ramsay, Boy Staunton |
| Literary Awards: | Premi Llibreter de narrativa (2006) |
Rating Regarding Books Fifth Business (The Deptford Trilogy #1)
Ratings: 4.05 From 16180 Users | 1019 ReviewsPiece Regarding Books Fifth Business (The Deptford Trilogy #1)
My lifelong involvement with the Fifth Business began at 5:58 oclock pm on 1 March 2010. I still remember the strong feelings and expressions on my face as I eagerly scanned your letter, and I must say Mr Dunstan, your letter was beyond crafty and colourful it was ingenious. It revealed the truths, the lies, and those burning thoughts you held within your mind for all these years. You took me through a truly marvellous journey. You had me confused at first when you talked about the Mrs DempsterI'm ashamed to say I bought this book in a used bookstore because of the cover, which I'm doubly ashamed to say that I likedWTF....yeas, I know.Anyway, as I'm preparing to make Canada my permanent home in the coming months, I wanted to explore Canadian literature and came across the book in one of the top-10-Canadian-novels-of-all-time lists online. Well, it was a great surprise! How I enjoyed reading this little gem of a book! The simple yet beautifully told story, full of wit and satire
Last week was Robertson Davies readalong week in the blog world, which was my excuse to finally try him for the first time. Of course, Canadians have long recognized what a treasure he is, but hes less known elsewhere. I do remember that Erica Wagner, one of my literary heroes (an American in England; former books editor of the London Times, etc.), has expressed great admiration for his work.I started with what I had to hand: Fifth Business (1970), the first volume of The Deptford Trilogy. In
4.5 starsRobertson Davies is one of my literary heroes. At a time in my youth when I had been engulfed with Canadian Literature that was, in my humble opinion at the time at least, depressing, uninteresting, and decidedly parochial, here was a man who wrote stories with verve, humour, erudition and a view to the wider world. _Fifth Business_ is the first book of Davies Deptford trilogy, a series of books that centre around people from the fictional small town of Deptford, Ontario. Sounds
I can not stand this book and don't understand why people seem to rave about it.I like the concept- that a character's life is not special, in itself, but how that character influences other character's lives gives the first character meaning, a bit like Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in Hamlet- but the book itself is just... Words on paper. I did not care at all about any of the characters. I found the main character to be boring, flat, uninteresting, and whinny. As the book is told in first
Ramsay was born in 1898 in Deptford, Ontario. When he was 10, while running away from his friend, a snow ball meant for him hit Mrs. Dampster instead of him. Mrs. Dampster, who was pregnant at that time, immediately went into labour and lets say she was never same again. She became what people of Deptford called "simple". This very event weighed heavily on Ramsay's conscience for the rest of his life. Whatever he did, he always returned to this very moment. In fact many of his decision were
I do not like the cover on this edition of Fifth Business. I don't remember when I first read this bookdefinitely in high school, but I hate to say that it's now long enough ago I can't remember the exact grade. I didn't like the cover then, and I don't like it now. There is just something unsettling about the composite of faces. I interpret it as a representation of the various people we are, at different stages of our life and even simultaneously, an allusion to the Jungian archetypes that
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