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Article: Bred in the Bone - The fiction of Canadian author Robertson Davies.(Critical Essay)
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- The World and I
- Article date:
- August 1, 2001
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J.B. Cheaney is a freelance writer living in the Ozarks of Missouri. Her first novel, The Playmaker, was recently published by Random House.
A reddish band of wintry twilight broods over the prairie as two boys make their way home from an afternoon of sledding. One of the boys is taunting the other, punctuating his remarks with snowballs. They come suddenly upon their town, its streets nearly empty, its steely air tinged with woodsmoke, stable sod, and dozens of evening meals--smells both earthy and ethereal. Just ahead, the local Baptist pastor strolls the deserted street with his pregnant wife. The taunting boy packs his last snowball around a chunk of Canadian ...