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ROBERTSON DAVIES' NEW NOVEL opens with a mystery: an elderly priest of the Anglican Church of Canada drops dead during a particularly dramatic moment in the Good Friday services. Very near its end, The Cunning Man (Viking; 469 pages; $23.95) provides an explanation for this long-ago demise, although it...
The narrator and hero of The Cunning Man is Jonathan Hullah, M.D., who was present at St. Aidan's Church in Toronto when Father Ninian Hobbes collapsed and died. Also on the altar that day was Hullah's old friend from prep-school days, Father Charles Iredale, who shooed the...
At the beginning of this latest Robertson Davies novel, an elderly priest of the Anglican Church of Canada drops dead during Good Friday services. That scene is not explained until the end of "The Cunning Man" (Viking; 469 pages; $23.95). But TIME critic Paul Gray says the overriding appeal of...
Dexter's accountthrough Jack's eyesof this newspaper story in the making is hip, hard-boiled and filled with memorable eccentrics. The reporters' encounters with members of the Van Wetter clan comicallyand ominouslyjuxtapose modern types with people ancient in their cunning and evil. The novel's conclusion feels a bit...
In the predatory world of American cities, runaways are near the bottom of the food chain. Some are ruthlessly abused; others become urban survivalists, displaying remarkable stamina and cunning. The younger children face the longest odds. "You have people preying on these kids from the minute they arrive at the...