Fifth Business (Penguin Classics) (edit title)

Shelfari edited the description of Fifth Business (Penguin Classics) Monday, August 3 2009.

• 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.

Shelfari edited the contributors of Fifth Business (Penguin Classics) Wednesday, July 22 2009.

• Added a contributor: Robertson Davies: (Primary Author)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of Fifth Business (Penguin Classics) Thursday, July 16 2009.

• MY LIFELONG INVOLVEMENT with Mrs. Dempster began at 5:58 o'clock p.m. on 27 December 1908, at which time I was ten years and seven months old.