Bill's Reading List
7) Tempest-Tost, Robertson Davies (1951). Robertson Davies is one of my favorite authors. His books are so elegantly written that it usually takes a bit to realize how extraordinarily funny they are.
Tempest-Tost, the first of Davies' Salterton Trilogy, is the story of an amateur production of Shakespeare's The Tempest in a garden in a small city in Ontario. Davies populates the town and the theatrical with a group of quirky personalities, each with a distinctive history and perspective. The novel is a comedy of manners, and Davies descriptions of how the players interact with each other is both highly realistic and powerfully funny, in an exceedingly dry sort of way.
Tempest-Tost, the first of Davies' Salterton Trilogy, is the story of an amateur production of Shakespeare's The Tempest in a garden in a small city in Ontario. Davies populates the town and the theatrical with a group of quirky personalities, each with a distinctive history and perspective. The novel is a comedy of manners, and Davies descriptions of how the players interact with each other is both highly realistic and powerfully funny, in an exceedingly dry sort of way.