| When Mungo Lockhart begins his firstyear at Oxford, he finds that his roommateis Ian Cardower, member of an aristo-cratic, if not wealthy, Scottish family,whose name, while vaguely familiar toMungo, appears shrouded in some kind ofmystery. Mungo, too, is Scottish, but he isthe product of a simpler, more austerechildhood, having been orphaned and thenraised and mostly educated by an aunt.Mungo sees Ian as the embodiment of theperfect Oxford student--popular, secure,superior, experienced with women----every-thing Mungo isn t. However, they become close friends andMungo meets Ian s family: his father, LordRobert, a very social, but unsuccessful,diplomat; his elderly grandfather, LordAuldearn, a landowner; and his homo-sexual uncle David, who lives in seclusionwith a once-prominent writer. Mungo,having only some vague knowledge of hisown heritage, becomes interested in Ian sheritage, particularly in another uncle,Douglas, who had been involved in ascandal and had died some years earlier.As Mungo delves deeper into Ian s familyhistory, questions arise concerning his ownparentage and his relationship to theCardower family, and he attempts todiscover who he is. J. I. M. Stewart writes perceptivelyabout a young man who, as he searches forhis identity, achieves the self-confidenceand sense of security necessary for trulyindeoendent existence. |
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