by Robertson Davies · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782020195485
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«Un homme remarquable» is Robertson Davies's novel published by Éditions de l'Olivier in paperback (514 pages, in French).
Francis Cornish, art expert and renowned collector, kept secrets all his life: a family mystery from childhood, encounters with an embalmer, a restorer, a Bavarian countess, and espionage agents. The novel weaves his story with artistic triumph and heroic deception in elegant, ironic prose.
Originally published as «What's Bred in the Bone» (1985), it is the second instalment of the Cornish trilogy. Shortlisted for the 1986 Booker Prize and winner of the Canadian Authors Association Award.
For readers of literary fiction and Canadian fiction, and for those who enjoy stories of art and espionage.
William Robertson Davies was a Canadian novelist, playwright, critic, journalist, and professor. He was one of Canada's best known and most popular authors and one of its most distinguished "men of letters", a term Davies gladly accepted for himself. Davies was the founding Master of Massey College, a graduate residential college associated with the University of Toronto.
