The Cunning Man, Robertson Davies
The Cunning Man, Robertson Davies
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The Cunning Man

Author: Robertson Davies

Narrator: George Guidall

Unabridged: 16 hr 52 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 01/02/2015

Synopsis

For years, Robertson Davies has won acclaim for his warmth and wisdom, humor and bravura. Now Canada's leading man of letters crowns an astonishing literary career with a novel in the spirit of his best-selling Murther & Walking Spirits. "Should I have taken the false teeth?" This is what Dr. Jonathan Hullah, a police surgeon with "a high degree of cunning," wonders after he signs the death certificate for St. Aidan's Father Hobbes.What made the good father drop dead while celebrating Communion? In his search for the answer, Hullah whisks us back on a tour of his own rich and colorful life. From his adventures in the Royal Canadian Army to his relationship with a butter sculptress, from his medical secrets to his circle of friends-including outrageous banker Darcy-Hullah revels in the divine comedy of life and, not incidentally, solves a murder. The Cunning Man is enormous entertainment from the first Canadian Honorary Member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.

About Robertson Davies

Robertson Davies (1913–1995) was an internationally acclaimed author, actor, publisher, and, finally, professor at the University of Toronto. The author of twelve novels and several volumes of essays and plays, he was the first Canadian to be inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Paul on July 28, 2016

I'd read a number of Robertson Davies' novels before this one, but The Cunning Man is by far my favorite - a magical feat of storytelling told by a narrator who is looking back on a fully lived life. Mr. Davies provides his own review of his novel with the last paragraphs of the book: "The telephone r......more

Goodreads review by Bob on October 31, 2012

The "Cunning Man" is the narrator of this novel, physician Jon Hullah. The title comes from the idea of every village having either a Wise Woman or a Cunning Man--someone with insights into the nature of things who sometimes brings healing or at least perspective. The book spans the seventy years of......more

Goodreads review by Mona on September 25, 2019

4.5. Not quite a 5 but close. Love Robertson Davies. May write a longer review later.......more

Goodreads review by Mary Ronan on December 29, 2011

"Should I have taken the false teeth?" Not a bad opening sentence for a novel in which all the action is precipitated by the death at the altar on Good Friday of a beloved priest in Toronto's high church Anglican parish of St Aidan's. The narrator, the cunning man of the title, Dr Hullah, has been a......more

Goodreads review by Sheri-lee on September 06, 2013

I think I 'really liked' this book more at the beginning. The last quarter is more in the 'like' category. But Davies is still an interesting and engaging read. In discussion with a fellow Davies-enjoyer, the idea of why people enjoy him so much was discussed. It was argued that his writing was alwa......more

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