Fifth Business (Deptford Trilogy)

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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 proves, in the end, neither innocent nor innocuous."--BOOK JACKET.

subjects: Fiction,  World War, 1914-1918,  Guilt,  Christian hagiography,  Veterans,  History teachers,  School principals,  Bachelors,  Viction,  British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author),  Authorship,  American literature,  World War (1914-1918) fast (OCoLC)fst01180746

Places: Canada