The Cunning Man - Softcover

Davies, Robertson

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140245502 ISBN 13: 9780140245509

Publisher: Penguin, 1995

Synopsis

"Canada's leading man of letters and literary virtuoso" (Chicago Tribune) crowns an astonishing literary career with a new novel in the spirit of hi s bestselling What's Bred in the Bone. A mysterious death prologues a rich and meaty saga, narrated by Dr. Jonathan Hullah, which looks back over a long life punctuated by the dazzling intellectual highjinks and compassionate philosophies of Hullah and his circle.

About this title

Review:

Irresistible, unflaggingly vital. A wholehearted and sharp-minded celebration of the Great Theatre of Life (Sunday Times)

A novel brimming with themes of music, poetry, beauty, philosophy, death and the deep recesses of the mind (Observer)

An amazing coup. Davies has written a brilliant, never less than engaging work of fiction which is also a philosophical meditation on the business of living. I have not read anything so good in a very long time (Financial Times)

A wise, humane and consistently entertaining novel (New York Times Book Review)

About the Author:

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 twelve novels and several volumes of essays and plays, he was the first Canadian to be inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0140245502
• ISBN 13: 9780140245509
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 528