by Robertson Davies · Penguin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140088014
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«What's Bred in the Bone» is the literary fiction novel by Robertson Davies, published by Penguin in paperback (448 pages, in English).
A novelistic portrait of Francis Cornish, an internationally renowned art expert and collector, whose gift for keeping secrets marks his life from childhood. His encounters with a rural embalmer, a master art restorer, a Bavarian countess, and several espionage agents weave a plot of appearances, intrigue, and falsehoods.
Originally published in 1985, it is the second instalment of the Cornish trilogy, between «The Rebel Angels» and «The Lyre of Orpheus», and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
It is aimed at readers of literary fiction and Canadian fiction interested in sagas and plots involving art and intrigue.
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.
