![]() ![]() I am able to date the occasion with complete certainty because that afternoon I had been sledding with my lifelong friend and enemy Percy Boyd Staunton, and we had quarrelled, because his fine new Christmas sled would not go as fast as my old one. on the 27 th of December, 1908, at which time I was ten years and seven months old. Boy, annoyed that Dunny has beaten him in a sled race, throws a snowball - with a rock concealed within it - at Dunny. He a Christian minister, she his downtrodden, pregnant wife. There is a sad, distressing couple in this town, the Dempsters. They are friends of a kind, and rivals, in a small town in Ontario, Canada in the early 20th century. The first novel opens with two little boys: Dunstable "Dunny" Ramsay (the smart, scrawny one) and Boy Staunton (the clever, brutish one). ![]() But I recommend The Deptford Trilogy - composed of Fifth Business, The Manticore and World of Wonders - to everyone who can read English. I have read all of the Davies' trilogies ( The Deptford, The Cornish and The Salterton) and I can recommend two - The Cornish and the Salterton - to David Lodge and even P.G. ![]() (Or maybe you had one I had Uncle Archie, the lady's man, whom we all knew to stay away from, and Uncle Jack, a crook with brilliantined hair and hard eyes). Robertson Davies is the witty, occasionally terrifying, stunningly erudite uncle you wish you had. ![]()
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