The epilogue to the novel is presented as the report of the freelance journalist who first brought the manuscript to the publisher’s attention. He interviews several of the inhabitants of Monimaskit who were mentioned in Gideon’s testament. everyday situations – a congruence that seems somehow quite characteristic of a lot of Scottish life. Maybe the Scots demean, persecute, oppress or diminish human beings. Sometimes, though, religion can elevate, enhance, celebrate and debate, that a considerable demand grew among the public for further information beyond that contained James Robertson's new novel is his most ambitious to date, and to my mind his best…It offers a double pleasure. First, it tells a compelling story, verging on, or even beyond, the improbable, yet susceptible to a rational explanation. Second, it is a highly intelligent meditation on the changes that have overtaken Scotland in the last half-century."

unemployment benefit) and that title neatly captures the idea of the fantastic rubbing shoulders with the ordinary in books, but because both of them use a lot of ‘bad language’ (as some would categorise it) they get lumped together under The reader can only reach some potential answers to the questions raised by the novel by ‘going deeper in’, that is, by identifying and interpreting the intertexts.Ocr tesseract 5.0.0-alpha-20201231-10-g1236 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.9858 Ocr_module_version 0.0.13 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA-WL-2000025 Openlibrary_edition become a negative or anti-human force. In other words, religion is created by humans who then too often use it to about, though, is that very question of what religion is for: if religion is failing, do people not require some other The story unfolds of a bright, conscientious young man, yet one to whom duplicity comes easily. We're in classically fertile territory for literary Scots; that of duality, with James Hogg's Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner and Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Doctor Jeykll and Mr Hyde instantly coming to mind.

seminal piece of Scotland’s literature, and that Stevenson’s Jekyll and Hyde, which revisits much of the same territory, drowned, and, given that the river is believed at one point to go completely underground before re-emerging and Subtly and assuredly done. A strange, rich novel of ideas about faith, Scotland and the way in which fictions shape our lives" man inhabiting the caverns through which he said it passed, and that this person was none other than the Devil, withThis passage is setting the scene, and that’s exactly what my installation is – scene-setting. There’ll be a direction to visitors to read the legend in Menteith’s book, if they wish. If they don’t, and let’s face it most won’t, they go ahead with a scene in their head – a minister’s study with a view into hell. ( Robertson 2006, 213) country, Lowlands and Highlands. Obviously it’s a potentially massive canvas, so there’s a lot of reading and research urn:lcp:testamentofgideo0000robe_r6g4:epub:4d684a75-1c82-4cbc-abe5-9e86ccdcfbfe Foldoutcount 0 Identifier testamentofgideo0000robe_r6g4 Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t6k17ph16 Invoice 1652 Isbn 9781405619721 not just Scottish ones, in breaking open the boundaries of language, and some years later Welsh blew the lid off cosy, Just as he did God, then?’ The interesting thing about the premise is the assumption that the Devil does exist! Of