The Fifth Business
by ROBERTSON DAVIES
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Author: ROBERTSON DAVIESEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Import
Published: 2005
ISBN: 0143051385
Number of pages: 272
Publisher: Penguin
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Book Review: A boy throws a snowball, and the world changes.
Summary: 5 Stars
"...and you must have 'Fifth Business,' because he is the one who knows the secret of the hero's birth, or comes to the assistance of the heroine when she thinks all is lost, or keeps the hermitess in her cell, or may even be the cause of somebody's death if that is part of the plot. The hero, the heroine, the hermitess and the villian do all the spectacular things but you cannot manage the plot without 'Fifth Business.' Are you 'Fifth Business?' You had better find out."
Unlike today's "fiction lite," "Fifth Business" is the kind of book you wish you could read for the first time all over again. Fiction aficionados rightly regard it as Davies' masterpiece. One day a boy throws a snowball, and the world changes. This is "Fifth Business." Haven't read it yet? I envy you!
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