Cunning Man

ROBERTSON DAVIES

ISBN 10: 0140245502 / ISBN 13: 9780140245509

Published by Penguin Books Ltd, London, 1995

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A-format paperback. 400 p. Audience: General/trade. No previous owner's name. Clean, tight pages. No bent corners. pb 123. Seller Inventory # Alibris.0034599

Bibliographic Details

Title: Cunning Man

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd, London

Publication Date: 1995

Binding: Mass-market paperback

Condition: Very good.

About this title

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.

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)