Roger's review
The Deptford Trilogy by Robertson Davies
Roger's review
rating:
recommended for: anyone who likes something a little different
status: Read in November, 2006
rating:
recommended for: anyone who likes something a little different
status: Read in November, 2006
This book is amazing, mostly because it is so subtle and leisurely. As a previous reviewer noted, it walks the line between the plausible and the gothically surreal. It has two Davies hallmarks- a very erudite, intellectual approach to art and the self and moments of almost bizarre humor. The three novles in the trilogy are all very different in tone. It is the first, "Fifth Business", that really got me. The book is sprawling, but in a very comfortable way. Very few people can write twenty and thirty page discussion scenes and keep them so interesting. It's been about a year since I picked up this first book by Robertson Davies and I am now working on the last novel of the Cornish Trilogy, having read all the Deptford and Salterton trilogies. Great stuff!
