- Paperback: 200 pages
- Publisher: Saltire Society (30 Oct 2007)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0854110968
- ISBN-13: 978-0854110964
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,573,074 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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First published in 1822, Adam Blair is a book not many will have heard of, and Lockhart is someone not many will know, but he was very well known in his time, he was the son-in-law of Sir Walter Scott, and great friends of another scottosh literary great, James Hogg.
Adam Blair is a novel about a minister in a small scottish village in the 19th century who's wife dies (on the second page of the book!), and his struggle to come to terms with this loss, and the loneliness and his human desires. An unhappily married old friend of his late wife comes to stay, and they are slowly drawn to each other, and, suffice to say, it is not a good idea for a minister to be attracted to a married woman.
It's a little dry in some places, and some of the final plot developments are a little unsatisfactory, a little too easy - at the end, in particular, one gets the feeling that Lockhart, when writing, looked at his watch and though 'ah well, better finish up now'. Nonetheless, it is well worth a look, the depiction of the pschological effects of loss and loneliness, and the responsibility of being a minister, on Adam are deftly handled. Although quite 'scottish' in feeling and style, it was originally written to appeal to both scots and english, and it's appeal is no less braod today.
Nice introduction by Ian Campbell as well.
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