{"product_id":"fifth-business-penguin-twentiethcentury-classics-9780141186153","title":"Fifth Business Penguin twentiethcentury classics","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe first book in Robertson Davies's acclaimed \u003ci\u003eThe Deptford Trilogy, \u003c\/i\u003ewith a new foreword by Kelly Link\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRamsay 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. \u003ci\u003eFifth Business\u003c\/i\u003e stands alone as a remarkable story told by a rational man who discovers that the marvelous is only another aspect of the real.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With m\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“If you are the kind of reader who looks for traces of the marvelous and the unexpected in narrative as well as daily life, then soon you will, like me, treasure these novels.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Kelly Link\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Deptford Trilogy\u003c\/i\u003e boldly commingles the extraordinary and the everyday, at times attaining what Davies once called, in talking about melodrama, ‘the compelling immediacy of a dream.’”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Michael Dirda\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Penguin Group (NZ)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49524440826199,"sku":"9780141186153","price":14.45,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780141186153.jpg?v=1731856786","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/fifth-business-penguin-twentiethcentury-classics-9780141186153","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}