The Manticore

The second novel in the critically acclaimed Deptford Trilogy and winner of the Governor General’s Award for Fiction, The Manticore is a masterful work by one of Canada’s literary greats.
 
David Staunton, the successful son of Percy Boyd Staunton, is haunted by his relationship with his father. Traumatized by his father’s death and plagued by a lifetime of unhappiness, David travels to Switzerland and undergoes Jungian analysis where he repeatedly encounters a manticore—a monster with the head of a man, the body of lion, and the tail of a scorpion. The Manticore is a fascinating and profound exploration of those regions beyond reason where monsters live.