Home Feed
Home
Search
Search
Add Review, Blurb, Quote
Add
Activity
Activity
Profile
Profile
The Cunning Man
The Cunning Man | Robertson Davies
4 posts | 6 read | 3 to read
The Cunning Man is a perceptive and entertaining memoir of a doctors life, available as an eBook for the first time. When Father Hobbes mysteriously dies at the high altar on Good Friday, Dr. Jonathan Hullahwhose holistic work has earned him the label Cunning Man (for the wizard of the folk tradition)wants to know why. The physician-cum-diagnosticians search for answers compels him to look back over his own long life. He conjures vivid memories of the dazzling intellectual high jinks and compassionate philosophies of his circle, including flamboyant, mystical curate Charlie Iredale; cynical, quixotic professor Brocky Gilmartin; outrageous banker Darcy Dwyer; and jocular, muscular artist Pansy Todhunter. In compelling and hilarious scenes from the divine comedy of life, The Cunning Man reveals profound truths about being human. In Robertson Davies last novel, he returns to those issues which concerned him throughout his writing careerthe nature of friendship, religion, faith, and artistic lifewith his famous wit and humour and his usual rich characterization.
Amazon Indiebound Barnes and Noble WorldCat Goodreads LibraryThing
Pick icon
100%
blurb
Leftcoastzen
The Cunning Man | Robertson Davies
post image

#30JuneBooks #SpinePoetry
If I die in Juarez,in a time of torment,
disturbing the peace,
the cunning man,in search of the miraculous.

blurb
Eyejaybee
The Cunning Man | Robertson Davies
post image
Schnoebs Don‘t mind me but I just bought that bookmark 😂😂😂 love it 6y
julesG That is a very readable signature. 6y
Eyejaybee I am lucky enough to go to Parliament for work most weeks when it is sitting, and all too often gravitate to the shop there. 6y
Ncostell What a treasure! He was such a remarkable writer. 6y
13 likes4 comments
blurb
Eyejaybee
The Cunning Man | Robertson Davies
post image

Eagerly anticipating revisiting this book (and I was lucky enough to get a copy signed by the author during a reading at the marvellous Muswell Hill Bookshop, only a few months before his death). #robertsondavies #thecunningman #muswellhillbookshop #muswellhill #n10 #muswellhillbilly #book #books #bookstagram #currentlyreading #canadianliterature #whereisthecoffee

AiBBot Wow! That is amazing! 6y
AiBBot I read that book decades ago. I need a revisit. Thank you for the reminder. 6y
Eyejaybee I hope you enjoy it second time around :) 6y
10 likes1 stack add3 comments
blurb
Seshat
The Cunning Man | Robertson Davies
post image

#spinepoetry, is it?

The Cunning Man
The Subtle Knife
The Wild Road
The Hollow Hills

bmsddk Cool grouping! 8y
DebinHawaii Nice! 👍📚 8y
27 likes1 stack add2 comments