The Deptford Trilogy
  • Published: 12 September 2011
  • ISBN: 9780241952627
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 832
  • RRP: $42.99

The Deptford Trilogy

Fifth Business, The Manticore, World of Wonders

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Reissue of this classic trilogy comprising Fifth Business, The Manticore and World of Wonders

At two minutes to six on December 27th 1908 the lives of three people become inextricably bound together by the trajectory of a snowball. There is ten-year old Dunstable Ramsay, intended victim of the snowball, who, fatefully, ducks; his 'lifelong friend and enemy' Percy Boyd Staunton, angered by their recent quarrel, who hurls the snowball; and Paul Dempster, prematurely born when his pregnant mother is struck by Percy's icy missile. Tracing the rich and varied lives of these three individuals, The Deptford Trilogy lures the reader down labyrinthine tunnels of myth, history and magic in one of the most beguiling, clever and cunning trilogies ever written.
  • Published: 12 September 2011
  • ISBN: 9780241952627
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 832
  • RRP: $42.99
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Praise for The Deptford Trilogy

The kind of writer who makes you want to nag your friends until they read him so that they share the pleasure

Observer

Davies' books will be recognized with the very best works of the twentieth century

New York Times Book Review

One of the great modern novelists

Malcolm Bradbury

A mature and wise writer

Anthony Burgess

Thick and rich with humour, character and incident

Observer
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