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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. An awe-inspiring, if brief, novel about the wondrous mythology of life. Davies seamlessly weaves in the miraculous with the tapestry of one ordinary man's long life in such a real, believable way that one is forced to ponder the nature of the miracle and what it means to the everyday person. Davies takes a loving, intelligent look at what it means to live in a world where saints and God are all around, if only we can see them. Not fun, per se, but enlightening in a way that is rare and satisfying. (  )iron_queen | Dec 28, 2008 |   My fav of all Robertson Davies's work (  )Dapperlibrarian | Dec 23, 2008 | A highly enjoyable read so far with outlandish characters that have a touch of the miraculous in them, creating a story that peeks under the veil a bit. rabszu | Aug 18, 2008 | Best fiction I have read in the last year. ( )busterrll | Jul 21, 2008 | Very metaphysical. Shows the unseemly underbelly of the magic profession. It kind of reminds me of that movie "The Prestige" with Christian Bale. ( )deweydui | Jul 14, 2008 | 0.080 seconds to build listing  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Book Description (ISBN 0140167943, Paperback)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. (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:19 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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