Fifth Business: The Deptford Trilogy, Book 1 (Unabridged)
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3.9 • 25 Ratings
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- $21.99
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- $21.99
Publisher Description
Hailed by the Washington Post Book World as "a modern classic", Robertson Davies’ acclaimed Deptford Trilogy is a glittering, fantastical, cunningly contrived series of novels, around which a mysterious death is woven.
This first novel in the trilogy introduces Ramsay, a man who returns from World War I decorated with the Victoria Cross but who is destined to be caught in a no man's land where memory, history, and myth collide. As we hear Ramsey tell his story, we begin to realize that, from childhood, he has influenced those around him in a perhaps mystical, perhaps pernicious way. Even his seemingly innocent involvement in as innocuous an event as throwing a snowball proves to be neither innocent nor innocuous in the end.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
One of Canada's most beloved books gets the stately and dramatic reading it deserves. Actor Marc Vietor's crisp delivery of the first novel in Robertson Davies' Deptford Trilogy captures the rueful voice of Dunstan Ramsey—and lends the proper emotional weight to his recollection of how a moment of childish anger left a lasting mark on his adult life. Davies' prose is ornate, poetic, and subtle, but Vietor is more than up to the challenge; his performance held our attention throughout this wonderfully discursive story.
