Why Should You Doubt Me Now?

by Mary Breasted

Overview

The Virgin Mary had made an untoward appearance in Dublin. Is she real? Is she a hoax? Mary Breasted's gift for poking fun where it hurts the most has produced an irreverent, irrepressible, unforgettable book. Ireland will never be the same.

"Breasted's perfectly aimed dialogue and brisk action skewer the jumbled politics--sexual, religious and marital, in academia and the governing Dail--that shape life in modern Ireland." - Publishers Weekly

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781466806009
Publisher:	Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication date:	11/01/1993
Sold by:	Macmillan
Format:	eBook
Pages:	292
File size:	408 KB

About the Author

Mary Breasted is also the author of I Shouldn't Be Telling You This.

Mary Breasted is the author of Why Should You Doubt Me Now? and I Shouldn't Be Telling You This.

Editorial Reviews

An apparition of the Virgin Mary appears in the Dublin flat of conservative, womanizing newspaper columnist Rupert Penrose, catching him and young reporter Attracta Dorris in flagrante. The upsetting--and mobile--vision becomes the pole around which Breasted ( I Shouldn't Be Telling You This ), an American journalist who has lived in Ireland, organizes the action of her witty, spirited novel. As Penrose vies with literature professor Dennis McDermott for the prestigious Kerrygold Chair of Irish Letters at City University of Dublin, the homesick Papal Nuncio, Padre Destino, copes with Irish weather and the rigidity of his small-minded assistant, Bishop Meany. Honoria Houlihan, the outspoken, pro-choice, female Vice President of the U.S., proposes to make a Christmas-time visit to her ancestral land as Dublin police Chief Superintendent Bloom tracks the vision as it moves from Penrose's bedroom to a pub, to the kitchen of a Protestant woman and finally to the suburban barn of a Dublin developer who has found himself involved with the IRA. Breasted's perfectly aimed dialogue and brisk action skewer the jumbled politics--sexual, religious and marital, in academia and the governing Dail--that shape life in modern Ireland. (Nov.)

Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly

As this new novel by the author of I Shouldn't Be Telling You This ( LJ 2/15/83) opens, Christmas is just weeks away, the Irish government faces bankruptcy, a half-ton of IRA Semtex has gone missing, and the Blessed Virgin is popping up all over Dublin. To make matters worse, the American vice president, a woman of Irish descent who likens abortion to having a tooth pulled, wants to come for a visit. Breasted, an American who spent many years in Ireland as a diplomat's wife, gives us a story overflowing with politicians, members of the religious hierarchy, and people great and small, all caught up in extraordinary times. Her delightful book should appeal to a wide range of readers.-- Debbie Bogenschutz, Cincinnati Technical Coll.

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