{"product_id":"9780140147551","title":"The Deptford Trilogy: Fifth Business; The Manticore; World of Wonders","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFifth Business\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eRamsay is a man twice born, a man who has returned from the hell of the battle-grave at Passchendaele in World War I decorated with the Victoria Cross and destined to be caught in a no man's land where memory, history, and myth collide. As Ramsay tells his story, it begins to seem that from boyhood, he has exerted a perhaps mystical, perhaps pernicious, influence on those around him. His apparently innocent involvement in such innocuous events as the throwing of a snowball or the teaching of card tricks to a small boy in the end prove neither innocent nor innocuous. Fifth Business stands alone as a remarkable story told by a rational man who discovers that the marvelous is only another aspect of the real. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eThe Manticore\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eAround a mysterious death is woven a glittering, fantastical, cunningly contrived trilogy of novels. Luring the reader down labyrinthine tunnels of myth, history and magic, \u003ci\u003eTHE DEPTFORD TRILOGY\u003c\/i\u003e provides an exhilarating antidote to a world from where 'the fear and dread and splendour of wonder have been banished'.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWorld of Wonders\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThis is the third novel in Davies's major work, \u003ci\u003eThe Deptford Trilogy\u003c\/i\u003e. This novel tells the life story of the unfortunate boy introduced in \u003ci\u003eThe Fifth Business\u003c\/i\u003e, who was spirited away from his Canadian home by one of the members of a traveling side show, the Wanless World of Wonders.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47022561460464,"sku":"9780140147551","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780140147551_p0.jpg?v=1763777739","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780140147551","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}