About this title: The story of a young girl's coming of age in Canada and abroad tells the story of Monica Gall, born in the small Ontario village of Salterton where, by all rights, she should have spent her life. However, a scholarship enables her to travel to Europe to study music, and, eventually, she becomes a celebrated singer. After several years abroad, Monica returns to find Salterton much less altered than she is.
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Edition: Later Printing
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books Canada, Limited, Toronto, ON, Canada
Date Published: 1986
ISBN-13:9780140054323ISBN:0140054324
Description: Very Good. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. Creasing to wraps. Light shelf wear. Solid copy with clean pages. read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Viking Penguin, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1980
ISBN-13:9780140054323ISBN:0140054324
Description: Good. No Dust Jacket as Issued. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. Book shows moderate to heavy wear/ spine tight, pages clean/ covers scuffed, moderate edge wear/ corners and spine creased/ slight readers slant/ covers creased with several small chips read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: MACMILLAN & COMPANY
Date Published: 1958
Description: Good in Good jacket. First Edition. Ex-Library-First Edition--379 pages. Interior is clean and tight. Nice overall. Ex library copy. -Publish Place: New York-Size: 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Date Published: 1980
ISBN-13:9780140054323ISBN:0140054324
Description: 0140054324 From AudioFile A mother posthumously stifles her son but grants a stranger spectacular opportunity. Third in a trilogy, yet independently satisfying, this presentation encourages listeners to seek more of Davies's beguiling prose. Will the audience pursue other narrations by Frederick Davidson? Fate, and what individuals do with it or in spite of it, are prevalent themes in Davies's writing, and a voice so incessantly rich and erudite as Davidson's poses an apropos question: Does Mr. ... read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Date Published: 1980
ISBN-13:9780140054323ISBN:0140054324
Description: A wonderful copy with some minor edgewear to the cover. Book has tanning or browning due to normal aging process. -, Mass Market PaperBack, Very Good / read more
Description: Very Good. 0140054324 FREE UPGRADE TO EXPEDITED SHIPPING (2-4 days when selecting standard shipping). Read Once. Light cover and binding wear, price sticker on back cover. Otherwise in Excellent Condition. We Ship Same or Next Day. read more
"To call this the third volume of the "Salterton Trilogy" is misleading, and anyone reading Davies' work chronologically might be somewhat shocked at the shift from the two previous volumes, Tempest-Tost and Leaven of Malice.
This is instead a transitional work, setting up the much darker but much deeper themes that will come to bear in the superior "Deptford Trilogy."
Certainly, the action of this book kicks off in Salterton -- among familiar characters -- and quickly sets itself up to be a Canadian Pygmalion. But the charming provincial foibles of Salterton quickly fall by the wayside, and we are carried with the central character into the wider world.
And in that wider world we are beset with greater moral perils. By the end of this book, events have taken a dark (though never completely bleak) turn. From now on, we are expelled from the Garden; Davies' characters will carry the taint of sin; Salterton is lost to us.
I can't help but wonder what happened to Davies himself to cause this shift."
"In an attempt to get hip to CanLit, I picked up Robertson Davies from The Bookman. I was really well surprised at the quality of Davies' writing and characters. The weave of the story, the unusual shift of focus between the story's players makes Davies' writing unique to me. Since it's my copy I've gone and dog-eared all the revelatory passages, brilliant quotations I want to recall. A personal novel about musicianship/being an artist and growth : Highly, highly recommended."
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