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Type: fiction

Status: —

Author: Robertson Davies

Description: The book opens with the protagonist questioning whether he should have taken the false teethThe book opens with the protagonist questioning whether he should have taken the false teeth of the dead priest. From there we get the story of Jonathan Hullah in his own journal as he recounts his life from his childhood in a small, North Canadian town, to his schooling at the University of Toronto, to his medical practice with its unorthodox methods. This cunning man used insight and a keen mind to fiqure himself and others out, and in the end, we understand the old priest's death....

2006-04-20