by Robertson Davies · Viking · tapa dura · ISBN 9780670859115
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«The Cunning Man» is the literary fiction novel by Robertson Davies, published in 1995 by Viking in hardcover (480 pages, in English).
Doctor Jonathan Hullah, a holistic physician nicknamed 'the cunning man', investigates the sudden death of a priest during a religious ceremony. His inquiry leads him to review his life in Toronto and evoke his eccentric friends, in a narrative laden with irony about faith, medicine, friendship, and memory.
The novel is the second installment of the Toronto Trilogy, by Canadian writer Robertson Davies.
Aimed at readers of literary fiction and those seeking novels with humor, irony, and memorable characters.
William Robertson Davies was a Canadian novelist, playwright, critic, journalist, and professor. He was one of Canada's best known and most popular authors and one of its most distinguished "men of letters", a term Davies gladly accepted for himself. Davies was the founding Master of Massey College, a graduate residential college associated with the University of Toronto.
