If you have yet to stumble across Robertson Davies, you're in for a treat. The great man of Canadian letters wrote a slew of novels, many set in rural Ontario and Toronto. His books are laugh-out-loud funny, filled with memorable characters and dazzling prose. This novel, his first -- and some say his best -- is as good a place as any to begin.  (USW42, $15.00)

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The Deptford Trilogy
Robertson Davies
LITERATURE •  1990 • PAPER  • 832 PAGES
An omnibus edition of Fifth Business (1970), The Manticore (1972) and World of Wonders (1975). Noteworthy for their faultless prose, memorable characters and trenchant humor, these novels follow the fate of three youths in Ontario. (CND223, $22.00)