The Cunning Man - Robertson Davies

Category: Humor, Literature, Novel
Language: English
Keywords: Toronto "Trilogy"

Written by Robertson Davies
Read by Frederick Davidson
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 128 Kbps
Unabridged

“Should I have taken the false teeth?” This is what Dr. Jonathan Hullah, a former police surgeon, thinks after he watches Father Hobbes die in front of the High Altar at Toronto’s St. Aidan’s on the morning of Good Friday. How did the good father die? We do not learn the answer until the very end of this “Case Book” of a man’s rich and highly observant life.

But we learn much more about many things, and especially about Dr. Hullah, as the Cunning Man takes us through his own long and ardent life of theatre, art, and music; varied adventures in the Canadian Army during World War II; and the secrets of a doctor’s consulting room, his preoccupation is not with sorrow but with the comedic canvas of life.

The last finished novel by Robertson Davies, The Cunning Man was theorized to be the second of an unfinished “Toronto Trilogy,” preceded by Murther and Walking Spirits.

Recorded 1996

15 hrs and 19 mins

(Note: this is the correct runtime and not the reported runtime on Audible, as that release contains repeated audio.)