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The Testament of Gideon Mack

The Testament of Gideon Mack

by James Robertson
Paperback
Publication Date: 18/04/2007

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A son of the manse, Mack has grown up in an austere and chilly house, dominated by a joyless father. Unable to believe in God, he is far more attracted by the forbidden allure of television and popular culture. Father and son clash traumatically one day and it may be guilt which drives Mack to take up a career in the Church.This minister, who doesn't believe in God, the Devil or an afterlife, one day discovers a stone standing in the middle of a wood where previously there had been none. Unsure what to make of this apparition, Mack's life begins to unravel dramatically until the moment when he is swept into a mountain stream, which pours down a chasm before disappearing underground.

Miraculously Mack emerges three days later, battered but alive. He seems to have lost his mind however, since he claims that while underground he met the Devil.

Written with tight pacing, superlative storytelling and immense imaginative power, this is Robertson's most ambitious and accessible novel to date.
ISBN:
9780141023359
9780141023359
Category:
Contemporary fiction
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
18-04-2007
Language:
English
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
400
Dimensions (mm):
197x129x26mm
Weight:
0.27kg
James Robertson

James Robertson was born in Scotland in 1958. He is the author of The Testament of Gideon Mack and And the Land Lay Still, among other novels, and has won the Saltire Society Scottish Book of the Year Award twice. The Testament of Gideon Mack was longlisted for the 2006 Man Booker Prize.

Robertson is also the author of four short-story collections, most recently 365: Stories, as well as poetry collections and children's books in both English and Scots.

He runs the independent publishing house Kettillonia and also co-founded the Scots language children's books imprint Itchy Coo.

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