num_pages: 257
description: 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.
language: English
title: Fifth Business
titlecomplete: Fifth Business
characters: Dunstan Ramsay, Boy Staunton
genres: Historical, Literature, Classics, Literary Fiction, School, Novels, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Canadian Literature, Canada
ratings_count: 18957
series: The Deptford Trilogy
awards: awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Premi Llibreter de narrativa
publisher: Penguin Canada