The Manticore
The second novel in the critically acclaimed Deptford Trilogy and winner of the Governor General’s Award for Fiction, The Manticore is a masterful work by one of Canada’s literary greats.
David Staunton, the successful son of Percy Boyd Staunton, is haunted by his relationship with his father. Traumatized by his father’s death and plagued by a lifetime of unhappiness, David travels to Switzerland and undergoes Jungian analysis where he repeatedly encounters a manticore—a monster with the head of a man, the body of lion, and the tail of a scorpion. The Manticore is a fascinating and profound exploration of those regions beyond reason where monsters live.
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October 13, 2015
Robertson Davies was born and raised in Ontario and was educated at a variety of schools, Upper Canada College, Queen’s University, and Balliol College, Oxford. He had three successive careers: first as an actor with the Old Vic Company in England; then as publisher of the Peterborough Examiner; and most recently as a university professor and first Master of Massey College at the University of Toronto, from which he retired in 1981.
He was without doubt one of Canada’s most distinguished men of letters, with over thirty books to his credit, among them several volumes of plays, as well as collections of essays, speeches, and belles lettres. As a novelist he …
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