Authors: Robertson Davies, Gail Godwin
ISBN-13: 9780141186153, ISBN-10: 0141186151
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)
Date Published: January 2001
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Ramsay is a man born twice, 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 myths 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 or innocuous.