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William Robertson Davies
The Melancholy of Romance
William Robertson Davies , arguably Canada's most distinguished novelist, goes back to the provincial city of Kingston at the mouth of the St Lawrence Seaway, where he grew up. It was the setting for his best-known trilogy, The Salter-ton Novels, a sardonic view of university life in the 1950s, with the characters still to be seen on the streets of Kingston.
There are people who say that the citizens of Kingston are eccentrics. They are not eccentrics -they are merely people who follow their own star. And for a writer, that is an absolute gift.'
Producer PAT FERNS Of PRIMEDIA PRODUCTIONS In association with BBCtv and TV ONTARIO

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