Fifth Business
About this book
"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
- american literature
- authorship
- bachelors
- british and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)
- canadian fiction
- christian hagiography
- fiction
- guilt
- history teachers
- school principals
- veterans
- viction
- world war, 1914-1918
- world war (1914-1918) fast (ocolc)fst01180746