With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. 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. 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. 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. Book Synopsis The first book in Robertson Daviess acclaimed The Deptford Trilogy, with a new foreword by Kelly Link 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 mans land where memory, history, and myth collide. About the Book The first novel in Daviess celebrated Deptford Trilogy introduces Ramsay, a man who returns from World War I decorated with the Victoria Cross who is destined to be caught in a no mans land where memory, history, and myth collide.
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