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Robertson Davies : man of myth / Judith Skelton Grant

By:

Grant, Judith Skelton

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Toronto : Viking, 1994Description: 787 p. : illus. ; 24 cmISBN:

9780670825578

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

92 DAV

Summary: The first illustration in this sprawling study of the life of the 82-year-old Canadian writer is an enema bag favored by the Davies family in the 1910s. Although the tone is informal, even chatty-perhaps reflecting the style of dozens of Davies's friends and colleagues interviewed by Grant, a Toronto-based author of a 1978 study of Davies's work-this is the kind of minutely detailed biography that is most interested in rooting out the historical basis for characters, incidents and themes in its subject's books. Davies himself cooperated, allowing Grant to interview him ``almost seventy'' times between 1981 and 1993, giving her access to letters and journals.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Notes	Date due	Barcode
Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles	92 DAV (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	non fiction		067601

Includes index.

The first illustration in this sprawling study of the life of the 82-year-old Canadian writer is an enema bag favored by the Davies family in the 1910s. Although the tone is informal, even chatty-perhaps reflecting the style of dozens of Davies's friends and colleagues interviewed by Grant, a Toronto-based author of a 1978 study of Davies's work-this is the kind of minutely detailed biography that is most interested in rooting out the historical basis for characters, incidents and themes in its subject's books. Davies himself cooperated, allowing Grant to interview him ``almost seventy'' times between 1981 and 1993, giving her access to letters and journals.

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