FIFTH BUSINESS by Robertson Davies. 308 pages. Viking. $6.95.
It is a secure kind of pleasure to begin a novel by Canadian Writer Robertson Davies. This is not because the reader knows what will happenDavies does not write formula fictionbut because he is serenely sure of what will not happen. The author will not hunt snarks, nor plant a forest of symbols and then get lost in it. Nor will he fail to have some compelling reason to write rather than remain silent.
There should be no dismay, therefore, when Davies introduces as his hero...
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