![]() ![]() ![]() Not exactly a morally unimpeachable man, he largely neglects his wife Jenny and is having an affair with Elsie, his best friend's wife. Mack, rather atypically for a minister, does not believe in God-certainly not in the way suggested by his vocation. Ministry is not, however, a great fit for him. His father before him was also a minister, a Calvinist, and a strict one dutifully following in his footsteps, Mack became a minister, rather than an English teacher as he had originally planned (and trained for). He lives in the fictitious coastal town of Monimaskit, Scotland, with Dundee to the south and Aberdeen to the north. Gideon Mack is a “son of the manse,” a minister of the Church of Scotland. In the report, he interviews several people mentioned in the testament. ![]() The story's epilogue, too, is presented as taking place outside the main plot it is the report of the journalist who first makes the publisher of Mack's last testament aware of its existence. ![]() Gideon Mack is given to be a Scottish minister in modern Scotland, whose doubt in God leads him, unexpectedly, to a face-to-face encounter with the devil. Long-listed for the 2006 Man Booker prize, James Robertson’s novel The Testament of Gideon Mack (2006) concerns Edinburgh publisher Patrick Walker, who discovers Gideon Mack's manuscript, his “last testament,” comprising the main plot of the novel. ![]()
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