by Robertson Davies · Penguin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140088014
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«What's Bred in the Bone» is the literary fiction novel by Robertson Davies, published by Penguin in paperback (448 pages, in English).
A novelistic portrait of Francis Cornish, an internationally renowned art expert and collector, whose gift for keeping secrets marks his life from childhood. His encounters with a rural embalmer, a master art restorer, a Bavarian countess, and several espionage agents weave a plot of appearances, intrigue, and falsehoods.
Originally published in 1985, it is the second installment of the Cornish trilogy, between «The Rebel Angels» and «The Lyre of Orpheus», and was a finalist for the Booker Prize.
It is aimed at readers of literary fiction and Canadian fiction interested in sagas and plots involving art and intrigue.
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.
