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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.
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Fifth business, Robertson Davies
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- Rok vydania
- 1980
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- Titul
- Fifth business
- Jazyk
- anglicky
- Autori
- Robertson Davies
- Vydavateľ
- Penguin Books
- Rok vydania
- 1980
- Väzba
- mäkká
- Počet strán
- 266
- ISBN10
- 014004387X
- ISBN13
- 9780140043877
- Série
- Deptfordská trilógia
- Prvé vydanie
- 1970
- Pôvodný názov
- Fifth Business
- Hodnotenie
- 4,1 z 5
- Anotácia
- 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.