What's Bred in the Bone:
"Robertson Davies is the sort of novelist readers can hardly wait to tell their friends about."
—The Washington Post Book World
"A fascinating story, beautifully organized, never drifting into inconsequence, its literal narrative and its metaphorical signals always in step, as with the best poetry or the greatest painting"
—The New York Review of Books
"Absorbing . . . The understated humor radiates with good sense about the way of the world."
—The Los Angeles Times Book Review
"So sparklingly inventive a storyteller is Davies that this fictional biography of Francis Cornish is filled with such a wealth of characters, wit, and wise reflections on the modern world that neither our intellectual engagement nor our curiosity about what happens next ever lags."
—Atlanta Journal & Constitution
"A beautiful novel . . . enlightening and entertaining . . . An extraordinary demonstration of modern art in fiction"
—The Cleveland Plain Dealer
"A wonderfully vivid story, full of the author's wizardly wit and scholarly gamesmanship . . . Davies takes the base metal of 20th-century small-town life and creates something truly rich and strange."
—The Baltimore Sun
"Constantly diverting and surprising . . . Mr. Davies has, abundantly, the storyteller's gifts, flourishes, cultural depth, and richness of texture of some of the fine 19th-century novelists. Yet he is also penetratingly sophisticated about the world around us."
—The Wall Street Journal