The Testament of Gideon Mack

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Penguin, Feb 26, 2008 - Fiction - 400 pages
A critical success on both sides of the Atlantic, this darkly imaginative novel from Scottish author James Robertson takes a tantalizing trip into the spiritual by way of a haunting paranormal mystery. When Reverend Gideon Mack, a good minister despite his atheism, tumbles into a deep ravine called the Black Jaws, he is presumed dead. Three days later, however, he emerges bruised but alive-and insistent that his rescuer was Satan himself. Against the background of an incredulous world, Mack's disturbing odyssey and the tortuous life that led to it create a mesmerizing meditation on faith, mortality, and the power of the unknown.
 

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Section 1
3
Section 2
25
Section 3
27
Section 4
29
Section 5
34
Section 6
39
Section 7
53
Section 8
91
Section 14
175
Section 15
195
Section 16
210
Section 17
224
Section 18
256
Section 19
311
Section 20
320
Section 21
326

Section 9
104
Section 10
122
Section 11
126
Section 12
145
Section 13
152
Section 22
330
Section 23
341
Section 24
344
Section 25
361
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About the author (2008)

James Robertson was born in Scotland in 1958. He is the author of several short story and poetry collections and has published the novels The Fanatic, Joseph Knight, and The Testament of Gideon Mack, among others. Joseph Knight won the Saltire Society Scottish Book of the Year and the Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year, and The Testament of Gideon Mack was longlisted for the 2006 Man Booker Prize. Robertson runs the independent publishing house Kettillonia, and he is co-founder and general editor of the Scots language imprint Itchy Coo, which produces books in Scots for children and young adults.

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