· Fergus Lamont by Robin Jenkins Posted in Reading Reviewed, Scottish Fiction, Scottish Literature at on 1 April Canongate Classic, , p, . At odds with his origins and unsettled in his aristocratic pretensions, Fergus Lamont reaches middle age before he is offered at least the hope of redemption in a love affair with an island woman. How it turns out and what he learns too late, adds a tragic dimension to the scathing humour of this, Robin Jenkins's most searching exploration of the modern Scottish www.doorway.rus: · Any similarity to the eponymous hero of Fergus Lamont, the late Robin Jenkins’ novel of one man’s year travail across this country’s class divide, which has now been adapted for the stage by Gerry Mulgrew’s Communicado theatre company, is purely coincidental.
Fergus Lamont By (author) Robin Jenkins; Introduction by Bob Tait 'Half Scotland sniggered and the other half scowled, when in letters to the Scotsman and the Glasgow Herald, I put forward my suggestion that prisoners in Scottish jails be allowed to wear their kilts as their national birthright if such be their wish.'. Robin Jenkins writes with a lively talent about a town he calls Gantock, on the Clyde, in the first forty years of this century, and yet it's disappointing that his particular successes in Fergus Lamont are clearly within the old tradition. About the author () Robin Jenkins was born in Cambuslang in and spent his childhood in Lanarkshire. He was educated at Hamilton Academy and Glasgow University, graduating in with an Honours degree in English. He married in and worked as a school teacher in Glasgow and Dunoon for a number of years. He had three children.
At odds with his origins and unsettled in his aristocratic pretensions, Fergus Lamont reaches middle age before he is offered at least the hope of redemption in a love affair with an island woman. How it turns out and what he learns too late, adds a tragic dimension to the scathing humour of this, Robin Jenkins’s most searching exploration of the modern Scottish psyche. At odds with his origins and unsettled in his aristocratic pretensions, Fergus Lamont reaches middle age before he is offered at least the hope of redemption in a love affair with an island woman. How it turns out and what he learns too late, adds a tragic dimension to the scathing humour of this, Robin Jenkins's most searching exploration of. At odds with his origins and unsettled in his aristocratic pretensions, Fergus Lamont reaches middle age before he is offered at least the hope of redemption in a love affair with an island woman.
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