Volume 40, Number 17 · October 21, 1993
Lives of the Saints
By William Trevor
No Other Life
by Brian Moore
Doubleday/Nan A. Talese, 223 pp., $21.00
The lives of the saints make fascinating reading. Saint Patrick, a slave on a lonely Irish mountainside, escaped from his bondage only to find himself overwhelmed by a sacred destiny that was as confining as any serfdom. Converting the people of the island where he had tended sheep, he gave his life to their spiritual well-being, made the locally ubiquitous shamrock the emblem of the Trinity, and rid the land of snakes.
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