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Fifth business, Robertson Davies
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- Erscheinungsdatum
- 1980
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- Titel
- Fifth business
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Robertson Davies
- Verlag
- Penguin Books
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 1980
- Einband
- Paperback
- Seitenzahl
- 266
- ISBN10
- 014004387X
- ISBN13
- 9780140043877
- Schlagwörter
- Belletristik, Historische Romane, Klassiker, Kanada, Kanadische Literatur
- Erstveröffentlichung
- 1970
- Originaltitel
- Fifth Business
- Bewertung
- 4,1 von 5 Sternen
- Beschreibung
- 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.