Robertson Davies (1913-1995) had three successive careers
during the time he became an internationally acclaimed author:
actor, publisher, and, finally, professor at the University of
Toronto. The author of twelve novels and several volumes of essays
and plays, he was the first Canadian to be inducted into the
American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Wayne Johnston is the author of several novels, including The Colony of Unrequited Dreams. He lives in Toronto.
“If you are the kind of reader who looks for traces of the
marvelous and the unexpected in narrative as well as daily life,
then soon you will, like me, treasure these novels.”
—Kelly Link
“The Deptford Trilogy boldly commingles the extraordinary
and the everyday, at times attaining what Davies once called, in
talking about melodrama, ‘the compelling immediacy of a
dream.’”
—Michael Dirda
"Robertson Davies is one of the great modern novelists."
—Malcolm Bradbury, The Sunday Times (London)"Robertson Davies is a
novelist whose books are thick and rich with humor, character and
incident. They are plotted with skill and much flamboyance."
—The Observer (London)
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