Add this copy of Testament to cart. $2.05, fair condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Reno rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Reno, NV, UNITED STATES, published 2002 by Doubleday Canada.
Add this copy of Testament to cart. $12.99, good condition, Sold by Russell Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Victoria, BC, CANADA, published 2002 by Doubleday Canada.
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Very Good in Acceptable jacket. Flat signed by Nino Ricci on the title page...previous owners name on the FFEP...this copy has a solid tight binding with clean unmarked pages...the dust jacket has chipping and small tears to it's edges...mylar protected.....
Add this copy of Testament to cart. $15.95, like new condition, Sold by Judith Patton rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Burlington, ON, CANADA, published 2002 by Doubleday Canada.
Add this copy of Testament to cart. $15.98, very good condition, Sold by Chris Korczak, Bookseller rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Easthampton, MA, UNITED STATES, published 2002 by Doubleday Canada Ltd.
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Very good in very good dust jacket. First Edition. First edition, first printing (full numberline). Jacket is present with some mild soiling. Price on jacket flap is not clipped. Text clean and unmarked. We try to note every flaw we can find, and we are quite picky, so buy with confidence! 100% guaranteed!
Add this copy of Testament to cart. $16.50, very good condition, Sold by Bison Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from winnipeg, MB, CANADA, published 2002 by Doubleday Canada.
Add this copy of Testament: a Novel to cart. $18.00, very good condition, Sold by Hourglass Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Vancouver, BC, CANADA, published 2002 by Doubleday Canada.
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Very Good in Very Good, Not Price Clipped jacket. Book Complete number line from 1 to 10; some edge wear to boards and dust jacket; otherwise a solid, clean copy with no marking or underlining; collectible condition.
Add this copy of Testament, a Novel (Signed Copy) to cart. $20.99, like new condition, Sold by JWMah rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Seattle, WA, UNITED STATES, published 2002 by Doubleday Canada Ltd..
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Fine in Fine jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" Signed by Author (CAD) 1st printing. SIGNED BY AUTHOR in characteristic squiggle to title page, no other markings, Fine n Fine dust jacket. Boards, 457pp. This novel is about a holy man and political fighter set in a remote corner of the Roman Empire. (2.3 JM LVR 200/c4.
Add this copy of Testament to cart. $21.00, like new condition, Sold by Brian Bauld (B-Line Books) rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Amherst, NS, CANADA, published 2002 by Doubleday.
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Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 0385658540. 457 pages; "My starting point was that this character was not divine."From Governor General’ s Award-winner Nino Ricci, one of Canada’ s most highly acclaimed literary voices, Testament is a bold work of historical fiction. Set in a remote corner of the Roman Empire at a moment of political unrest and spiritual uncertainty, it re-tells the life of a holy man of enormous charisma who alters the course of human history. Grounded in extensive research, and written with the poetic sensibility that has earned Ricci an international reputation, Testament vividly recreates first-century Palestine in elegant but accessible prose to explore the story of the man we know as Jesus. Testament at once distances us from the familiar accounts by using Hebrew and Aramaic names. Moreover, he offers the story of Yeshua (Jesus) through the eyes and testimony of four fictional followers, reminiscent of yet utterly different from the Gospels, giving fresh perspective and a captivating narrative to an age-old story. -Yihuda of Qiryat (Judas Iscariot) is a rebel freedom fighter working for Rome’ s overthrow, who sees Yeshua come in from the desert. He is drawn to him; and yet he is full of doubt, always an outsider, too intellectual to simply accept and be accepted. “ Tell me your secret, ” he thinks, “ make me new. ” -Miryam of Migdal (Mary Magdalene), whose family make a living curing fish, is captivated by the way Jesus includes her among his followers, who he encourages to ask questions and challenge him. For this woman, kept back by society from intellectual stimulation, he “ reached inside me with his words to touch the inmost part of me. ” -Yeshua’ s mother Miryam tells us plainly that he was the result of a rape by a Roman legate; she was forced to marry an old man named Yehoceph, and give birth in his rough lodgings. Her eldest son quickly set himself apart from his siblings. She shows how he learned from different teachers, always quick to challenge received knowledge. -Finally, we read the account of Simon of Gergesa, a Greek shepherd who sees Jesus with hundreds of followers on a hill across the lake, and comes to the shore to hear him. « This was strange enough, for a Jew, to come out in search of us Syrians and Greeks.  » Simon, who finds great sense in Jesus’ teachings, relates to us the last days of the Jewish preacher. Nino Ricci says: “ From the outset I assumed that Jesus was somebody who, in whatever way, was greater than I was, someone I wasn’ t going to get to the bottom of. ” So he used the technique of circling around the subject, giving different facets, trying to show by suggestion something that cannot be simply explained. “ You can’ t describe the light and you can’ t portray the light, but you know the light is there because it is casting shadows. ” In these overlapping narratives with varying interpretations, each narrator seeing the holy man according to his or her needs, we also see how the story may have been transformed through countless retellings. “ I don’ t think he saw himself as the Son of God. I think that was a later overlay. ” Ricci is not the first novelist to approach this central figure of Western civilizationÂ: notable others include D.H. Lawrence, Nikos Kazantzakis (who aroused much anger with his Last Temptation of Christ), Anthony Burgess, Jose Saramago, Norman Mailer, recently Jim Crace. However, Ricci ignored the divine element, using naturalistic explanations for the Bible’ s miraculous events. “ I find it much more interesting to think of him as having been a real person… who tries to change things in a human way with only human powers.  To me that makes him a great man--and a model. ” For research, Ricci travelled to Israel and Jordan to visit the Biblical sites; for an understanding of ancient Mediterranean peoples...
Add this copy of Testament: a Novel to cart. $23.00, very good condition, Sold by Hourglass Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Vancouver, BC, CANADA, published 2002 by Doubleday Canada.
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Near Fine in Near Fine, Not Price Clipped jacket. Book. Signed by Author(s) Complete number line from 1 to 10; signed by Nino Ricci on the title page with no inscription; minor wear; otherwise a solid, clean copy with no marking or underlining; collectible condition.