The Manticore Paperback by Robertson Davies

Product Details

• Publisher: Penguin Canada (2015-10-13)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 272 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780143194149
• Item Weight: 209.79 grams
• Dimensions: 7.7 x 5.05 x 0.7 cm

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.

About the Author

ROBERTSON DAVIES (1913–1995) was born and raised in Ontario, and was educated at a variety of schools, including Upper Canada College, Queen’s University, and Balliol College, Oxford. He had three successive careers: as an actor with the Old Vic Company in England; as publisher of the Peterborough Examiner; and as university professor and first Master of Massey College at the University of Toronto.
 
He was one of Canada’s most distinguished men of letters, with several volumes of plays and collections of essays, speeches, and belles lettres to his credit. As a novelist, he gained worldwide fame for his three trilogies: The Salterton Trilogy, The Deptford Trilogy, and The Cornish Trilogy, and for later novels Murther & Walking Spirits and The Cunning Man.
 
He was the first Canadian to be made an Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, he was a Companion of the Order of Canada, and he received honorary degrees from twenty-six American, Canadian, and British universities.