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Fifth Business

Fifth Business
Robertson Davies

Fifth Business is a novel by Canadian writer Robertson Davies. It is the first installment of the Deptford Trilogy and explores the life of the narrator, Dunstan Ramsay. It is Davies' best-known novel and has been ranked as his finest.First published by Macmillan of Canada in 1970, Fifth Business was ranked as 40th on the American Modern Library's "reader's list" of the 100 best novels of the 20th century.

“If you don't hurry up and let life know what you want, life will damned soon show you what you'll get.”

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