Simple-one might say classical-tale, showing how violence, even Despite its unorthodoxies, The Testament of Mary is a very Understated and clear, that it renders the pain that much more Life-canceling Suffering-in a voice that is so restrained, so 'Mary relates all of this-the life-giving miracles and the Language, its almost shocking characterization, its austere refusal of One-woman show in Dublin, it takes its power from the surprises of its Leave their poetic and image-making gifts at the door, Toibin is at his 'Unlike other writers who, in rendering the historical past, Thisīeautifully written 'testament' speaks to the testimonial Offers us the immediate details, the minute and the horrifying. The crucifixion scene unfolds to its perhaps ordained conclusion, Mary 'Mary's counter-narrative culminates at Calvary, and as

Vision, Testament is a spellbinding, surprisingly Your faith is strong enough to accommodate one artist's alternative That, understandably, will be a deal breaker for some readers. 'Toibin's Mary does not believe Jesus was the son of God. Might have kept locked away in her heart.' KAREN R. With an avidness to imagine a Mary who speaks, and to hear what she Toibin's temerity is a shock, of course, but it pairs The cozy, safe, Christmas-card version in The Testament of

'The masterful Irish writer Colm Toibin puts a jackhammer to World, I will say that it was not worth it.' She relates the heart-wrenching story of a happy home devastated by theĭeath of her beloved husband and her inability to save her misguided, Memories to the dubious new religion these men seek to create. Stubborn and cynical, Mary contemptuously refuses to tailor her Paul) pester her for the details of her son's early Of Ephesus, where two unnamed 'Evangelists' (most likely St. THE STORY: Years after her son Jesus was crucified on MountĬalvary, Mary, old and impoverished, lives in a rented room in the city Short-listed for the Booker Prize, and the Costa Novel Award-winning

Lightship (1999), The Master (**** SELECTION Sept/Oct 2004), More than 20 works of fiction and nonfiction, including The Blackwater Irish novelist, poet, and playwright Colm Toibin is the author of

MLA style: 'The Testament of Mary.' The Free Library.

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