on 27 December 1908” and he is “ten years and seven months old”. The novel opens by recounting a rather compelling and ultimately seminal moment in Dunny’s life: It is “5:58 o’clock p.m.
The title refers to the idea of a person being neither hero nor heroine, confidante or villain, but still being a vital part of a plot - without them, the denouement or resolution would not happen.Īnd that is the perfect description of the role with which our narrator, Dunstan “Dunny” Ramsay, fulfills - he is the “fifth business”. It is the first volume of the Deptford Trilogy, but can be read as a standalone novel. Fiction – paperback Penguin Modern Classics 272 pages 2005.įirst published in 1970, Robertson Davies’ Fifth Business is a Canadian literature classic and listed in Peter Boxall’s 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die.
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