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Article: FRESH UNDERSTANDING FOR AN OLD FRIEND.(COMMENTARY)(Review)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- August 17, 1997
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Byline: JEFFREY H. RICHARDS
THE MERRY HEART
Reflections on Reading, Writing and the World of Books
ROBERTSON DAVIES
Viking. 385 pp. $27.95.
At the time of his death in 1995, Robertson Davies was considered a major figure in Canadian letters. His 12 novels, including Fifth Business, What's Bred in the Bone, Murther and Walking Spirits and his last, The Cunning Man, constitute an impressive body of work, output enough to satisfy many a writer. In this volume, the first of two such, his widow, Brenda Davies, and an editor, Douglas Gibson, have assembled lectures and other occasional pieces, most of them heretofore unpublished. ...