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Mixture of Frailties

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Mixture of Frailties

by Robertson Davies

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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goodreads rating 4 out of 5 4 out of 5
Sep 15, 2009
By Jenny, Montclair, NJ

"Just re-read this one-- a favorite of mine in the "raised by fundies: processing/recovering" genre I like so well."

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goodreads rating 3 out of 5 3 out of 5
Jun 6, 2009
By Adam, Augusta, GA

"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."

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May 2, 2009
By tamarack, Canada

"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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goodreads rating 3 out of 5 3 out of 5
Aug 27, 2008
By SF SQRL, Canterbury, The United Kingdom

"An enjoyable book that gently makes fun of Canada, ex-pats, religion, and artistic types.

Worth a read.

Borrowed."

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