false <![CDATA[Fifth Business (Penguin Modern Classics)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170852646m/74406.jpg 74406 19 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.<br><br><i>Fifth Business</i> stands alone as a remarkable story told by a rational man who discovers that the marvelous is only another aspect of the real. 603433 book 1970 Fifth Business (Modern Classics) total:1401|5:551|4:544|3:247|2:46|1:13| 1401 5777 1901 155 4 1 false false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Jul 03 11:22:30 -0700 2007 Tue Jul 03 12:23:49 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Fri Feb 27 10:46:56 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 27 10:47:37 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 2 false false Fri May 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri May 22 18:48:27 -0700 2009 Fri May 22 18:48:27 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sun Apr 26 07:51:42 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 26 08:03:29 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Dec 27 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 24 17:32:39 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 28 00:15:49 -0800 2008
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