Lady Magdalen by Robin Jenkins
The daughter of Lord Carnegie of Kinnaird, Lady Magdalen shares with her childhood friend, Francis Gowrie of Mintlaw, a love of art and beauty, and a horror of barbaric practices. But, with civil war brewing and family alliances paramount, Carnegie arranges her marriage to an ambitious young soldier, James Graham, the future Marquis of Montrose. This is a captivating novel, which juxtaposes the feminine and domestic with the political and military ramifications of the era. Lady Magdalen is effortlessly readable and a powerful evocation of seventeenth century Scotland.
His uncompromising, deeply ambivalent analysis of human idealism has established him as the greatest living fiction-writer in ScotlandJenkins is the Scottish Thomas Hardy; he can also be seen as the post-war founder of the movement in Scottish fiction, culminating in James Kelman and Irvine Welsh, which saw fictional escape to a romanticised past as bogus. * * The Scotsman * *
As a story-teller, Jenkins has few equals. Cynicism and slickness are out. Pace and razor-sharp observations are in. * * Tribune * *
If you are interested in books that are human and wise . . . then treat yourself this year to some Robin Jenkins . . . he is simply wonderful. -- Andrew Marr
Jenkins deserves our admiration for creating a novel which, though a delight to read, is a good deal more serious than it may immediately seem. * * TImes Literary Supplement on Childish Things * *
As a story-teller, Jenkins has few equals. Cynicism and slickness are out. Pace and razor-sharp observations are in. * * Tribune * *
If you are interested in books that are human and wise . . . then treat yourself this year to some Robin Jenkins . . . he is simply wonderful. -- Andrew Marr
Jenkins deserves our admiration for creating a novel which, though a delight to read, is a good deal more serious than it may immediately seem. * * TImes Literary Supplement on Childish Things * *
Author of a number of landmark novels including The Cone Gatherers, The Changeling, Happy for the Child, The Thistle and the Grail and Guests of War, Jenkins is rapidly attaining recognition as one of Scotland's greatest writers. The themes of good and evil, of innocence lost, of fraudulence, cruelty and redemption shine through his work. His novels, shot through with ambiguity, are rarely about what they seem. He published his first book, So Gaily Sings the Lark, at the age of thirty-eight, and by the time of his death in 2005, over thirty of his novels were in print.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781841954929 |
| ISBN 10 | 1841954926 |
| Titel | Lady Magdalen |
| Autor | Robin Jenkins |
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| Bindungsart | Paperback |
| Verlag | Canongate Books |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 2004-05-24 |
| Seitenanzahl | 336 |
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