The Deptford Trilogy

This trilogy of novels, published in the 1970s, circles a single winter incident in the small Ontario town of Deptford: a snowball meant for one boy that strikes a pregnant woman. Fifth Business follows schoolmaster Dunstan Ramsay and the lives of Boy Staunton and Mary Dempster; The Manticore takes Boy's son David through Jungian analysis in Switzerland; World of Wonders lets the magician Magnus Eisengrim tell how Paul Dempster became a world-famous illusionist. Saints, frauds, and stagecraft recur. The three books are linked psychological novels, not a regional chronicle of Canadian town life alone.

Bound in red cloth, image blocked in silver, gold and black with design by Neil Packer. Silver endleaves with a design in black by Suart. Black slipcase.