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Francis Cornish is another one of those great Davies characters, a child of the old world lost in the new. Cornish is dead before the book begins and his story is told by the Daimon Maimas and the Recording Angel, two medieval creatures who have overseen his life. Under their influence, Cornish has lead a decidedly bizarre existence. His parents essentially abandon him at the beginning of this century to be raised in a miniscule Canadian town by his Catholic great aunt who bootlegs Catholicism to him against the wishes of his resolutely Anglican father...
...other aspect of Davies' novel falls flat. In The Rebel Angels Davies populates the novel with the unseen but mysterious forces of medieval angels. But in What's Bred in the Bone Davies brings them to life. The Daimon Maimas and the Recording Angel narrate the novel. This little conceit provides the structural premise of the book, and it wilts fast...
...residents know little about how Daimon began his stay at Dudley. The generally accepted story is that he was invited to the co-op by some friends for Thanksgiving dinner, and he just stayed...
...Naturally [other] people have tried [the same] routine." Tanaka explains, "but they weren't accepted which points to Daimon's uniqueness...
...Daimon is a friend of the co-op and therefore of this segment of the school." Tanaka continues "He's a one-shot deal...