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Fifth Business |
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| Book: Paperback | 5.15 x 7.71in | 272 pages | ISBN 9780141186153 | 01 Jan 2001 | Penguin Classic | 18 - AND UP |
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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
"A mature, accomplished, and altogether remarkable book, one of the best of this or any other season, and it simply cannot be ignored." —Washington Post Book World
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