Books with author Robertson Davies

This is a tale of one school and two communities in Los Angeles. A lightning bolt of summer love hits Sydney Masterson. Her love turns out to be forbidden, and she begins a string of deception to prolong the relationship. Destiny, however, dictates her inevitable disappointing fate. Thermos Whitfield and Jose Ramirez are the quarterback and wide receiver on the football team. Because some members of the 28th Street Gang play on the team, gang rivals, the Cagers, target everyone. This means that Jose may have to go against his younger brother, Tony. Ward Bertram starts his second year as principal of Wayland High and wants to implement his own program. Help is needed from his two assistant principals, one of whom is battered at home while the other misses the first day of school because of personal demons.

For years, Robertson Davies has won acclaim for his warmth and wisdom, humor and bravura. Now Canada's leading man of letters crowns an astonishing literary career with a novel in the spirit of his best-selling Murther & Walking Spirits. "Should I have taken the false teeth?" This is what Dr. Jonathan Hullah, a police surgeon with "a high degree of cunning," wonders after he signs the death certificate for St. Aidan's Father Hobbes.What made the good father drop dead while celebrating Communion? In his search for the answer, Hullah whisks us back on a tour of his own rich and colorful life. From his adventures in the Royal Canadian Army to his relationship with a butter sculptress, from his medical secrets to his circle of friends-including outrageous banker Darcy-Hullah revels in the divine comedy of life and, not incidentally, solves a murder. The Cunning Man is enormous entertainment from the first Canadian Honorary Member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.

[Read by Frederick Davidson]From an early age, Jonathan Hullah developed ''a high degree of cunning'' in concealing what his true nature might be. He kept himself on the outside, watching and noticing, most often in the company of those who bore watching. As the cunning man takes us through his own long and ardent life, chronicling his varied adventures in the worlds of theatre, art, and music, in the Canadian Army during World War II, and in the doctor's consulting room, his preoccupation is not with sorrow but with the comedic canvas of life. Robertson Davies intertwines language and story, as perhaps never before, to offer us profound truths about being human.