OH I am thinking very hard about _What's Bred in the Bone_, the very first Robertson Davies novel I had ever read, because the protagonist of the book and the central character of the trilogy (it's book two, but I never felt like I screwed it up by not reading _The Rebel Angels_ first. In fact I read it last, many years after I had read _The Lyre of Orpheus_ wait hold on I am gassing on about a Canadian novelist let me pull up)
...because the protagonist of the book and the central character of the trilogy, Francis Cornish, is a significant patron of the arts who dies and leaves behind an art collection that would make the National Gallery of Canada whimper softly just under their breath and one secret he kept all the way to the grave:
I swear I've heard the names of all of these without ever knowing anything about them, but after looking them up, I am now utterly intrigued. I want to read these!
I listened to the trilogy on audio a few years ago. it was exactly like going back to the town you spent enough time in to get to know, but then you left, and years later you are back, and yeah something's different now.
OH I am thinking very hard about _What's Bred in the Bone_, the very first Robertson Davies novel I had ever read, because the protagonist of the book and the central character of the trilogy (it's book two, but I never felt like I screwed it up by not reading _The Rebel Angels_ first. In fact I read it last, many years after I had read _The Lyre of Orpheus_ wait hold on I am gassing on about a Canadian novelist let me pull up)
...because the protagonist of the book and the central character of the trilogy, Francis Cornish, is a significant patron of the arts who dies and leaves behind an art collection that would make the National Gallery of Canada whimper softly just under their breath and one secret he kept all the way to the grave:
He was an art forger.
I swear I've heard the names of all of these without ever knowing anything about them, but after looking them up, I am now utterly intrigued. I want to read these!
I listened to the trilogy on audio a few years ago. it was exactly like going back to the town you spent enough time in to get to know, but then you left, and years later you are back, and yeah something's different now.