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"To live content with small means, to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion, to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich, to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly, to listen to stars and birds, tobabes and sages, with open heart, to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never, in a word to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common, this is to be my symphony."
- William Henry Channing
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 Format: Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Viking Penguin
ISBN: 0141186151
Release Date: Jan 10, 2002
Average Reader Review:  (Based on 3 reviews.)
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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.
One of the splendid literary enterprises of this decade. (Peter Prescott, Newsweek)
A marvelously enigmatic novel, elegantly written and driven by irresistible narrative force. (The New York Times)
Author Bio: Robertson Davies (1913-1995) had three successive careers during the time he became an internationally acclaimed author: actor, publisher, and finally, professor at the University of Toronto. The author of 12 novels and several volumes of essays and plays, he was the first Canadian to be inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Gail Godwin is the author of ten critically acclaimed novels including A Mother and Two Daughters, The Odd Woman, and Violet Clay, which were nominated for the National Book Award. She has been awarded a Guggenheim fellowship as well as the Award in Literature from the National Academy and Institute of Arts. Her most recent novel is Evensong.
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Fantastically interesting!
-- A reviewer, a creative writing student., October 8, 2001
Also Recommended: Manticore, Messiah of Stockholm
It All Begins With 'Fifth Business'
-- Allen Smalling, a free-lance writer from Chicago, April 2, 2001
Also Recommended: If you can, dig up the earlier 'Salterton' trilogy, set in small-town Ontario in the 1950s.
AMAZING!!!!!
-- Christa Hunt, An OAC student, December 21, 1999
Also Recommended: The Manticore World of Wonders
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A rational man discovers that wonders are simply an aspect of reality
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