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If the devil didn't exist, would man have to invent him? For Gideon Mack, faithless minister, unfaithful husband and troubled soul, the existence of God, let alone the Devil, is no more credible than that of ghosts or fairies. Until the day he falls into a gorge and is rescued by someone who might just be Satan himself.Read More

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  • TheBookPeople

    The Testament of Gideon Mack is James Robertson's acclaimed novel exploring faith and belief. For Gideon Mack, faithless minister, unfaithful husband and troubled soul, the existence of God, let alone the Devil, is no more credible than that of ghosts or fairies. Until the day he falls into a gorge and is rescued by someone who might just be Satan himself. Mack's testament - a compelling blend of memoir, legend, history, and, quite probably, madness - recounts one man's emotional crisis, disappearance, resurrection and death. It also transports you into an utterly mesmerizing exploration of the very nature of belief. Fascinating, extraordinary, strange, rich. (Sunday Telegraph). Overwhelmingly compassionate and thought-provoking. Demands another read. (Irvine Welsh, Guardian). Hugely enjoyable, very funny, deeply refreshing ...its touch of devilry makes it even more of a joy. (Herald). Fabulous ...a work of the highest literary quality. (Scotland on Sunday). Astonishingly accomplished, utterly compelling from start to finish ...could well be the best novel published anywhere this year. (Big Issue). James Robertson is a brilliant novelist. It's a long time since I read a novel in which the contemporary notions of faith and belief were so frankly tested. (Ali Smith). James Robertson is the author of the novels The Fanatic, Joseph Knight, The Testament of Gideon Mack, And the Land Lay Still and The Professor of Truth. The Testament of Gideon Mack was longlisted for the 2006 Man Booker Prize, picked by Richard and Judy's Book Club, and shortlisted for the Saltire Book of the Year award, and And the Land Lay Still was the winner of the Saltire Book of the Year Award 2010.

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    Set in contemporary Scotland the novel uses the literary device of a discovered manuscript the testament of Gideon Mack which has fallen into the hands of a journalist. 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 cartoons on television. Father and son clash fatally 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 standing stone 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.To this story Robertson adds a wealth of insight about the mood of post-war Scotland on the brink of the social revolution of the Sixties and dramatizes the country's struggle to stay true to its history while swimming within the powerful current of Americanization. Written with great lyricism tight pacing superlative storytelling and immense imaginative power this is Robertson's most ambitious and accessible novel to date.

  • Penguin

    A strange but compelling manuscript, supposedly the memoir of a Church of Scotland minister who has gone missing, arrives on the desk of an Edinburgh publisher.

  • 014102335X
  • 9780141023359
  • James Robertson
  • 18 January 2007
  • Penguin
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 400
  • Later printing
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