The first novel of the “Deptford Trilogy” by the outstanding Canadian writer and playwright Robertson Davis. Over the course of sixty years, the fate of three people from the tiny Canadian town of Deptford has been traced: one becomes a millionaire and politician, the other a world-famous magician, the third (the narrator) is a teacher and hagiographer, for whom psychological and metaphorical truth is no less important than objective, and then and more.