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What's Bred in the Bone Reprint Edition
Author(s): Robertson Davies (Author)
- Publisher: Penguin Books
- Publication Date: November 4, 1986
- Edition: Reprint
- Language: English
- Print length: 448 pages
- ISBN-10: 0140097112
- ISBN-13: 9780140097115
Book Description
Francis Cornish was always good at keeping secrets. From the well-hidden family secret of his childhood to his mysterious encounters with a small-town embalmer, an expert art restorer, a Bavarian countess, and various masters of espionage, the events in Francis’s life were not always what they seemed.
In this wonderfully ingenious portrait of an art expert and collector of international renown, Robertson Davies has created a spellbinding tale of artistic triumph and heroic deceit. In this second book of the Cornish Trilogy, Davies spins a tale told in stylish, elegant prose, endowed with lavish portions of his wit and wisdom.
“A deliciously readable story…An altogether remarkable creation, his most accomplished novel to date.” —
The New York TimesEditorial Reviews
Review
Novel by Robertson Davies, published in 1985 as the second volume of his so-called Cornish trilogy. The other books in the trilogy are The Rebel Angels (1981) and The Lyre of Orpheus (1988). Two angels narrate this story about the mysterious life of a famous art collector named Francis Cornish. — The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature
About the Author
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.
