This author wrote that "The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past" in a collection of essays titled A Voice in the Attic.
Along with Tyrone Guthrie, this author wrote a work named for a line spoken by the First Witch from Act IV Scene I of Macbeth, Thrice the Brindled Cat Hath Mew'd. This author wrote that "The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past" in a collection of essays titled A Voice in the Attic. This author also wrote a novel beginning with Clement Hollier, Urquhart McVarish, and Simon Darcourt reading the will of a wealthy art dealer. Another of his works centers on a snowball throwing incident involving Ramsey and Percy "Boy" Staunton. He wrote a trilogy comprised of The Rebel Angels, What's Bred in the Bone, and The Lyre of Orpheus, as well as a trilogy consisting of Fifth Business, The Manticore, and World of Wonders. FTP, name this Canadian author of the Cornish and Deptford trilogies.
Along with Tyrone Guthrie, this author wrote a work named for a line spoken by the First Witch from Act IV Scene I of Macbeth, Thrice the Brindled Cat Hath Mew'd.
{Robertson Davies}