The book Anne Rice was born to write, a novel about the childhood of Jesus from Alexandria to Judea in the turbulent 1st century - the story of the boy who was born to be King of the Jews, and the 'ultimate supernatural hero, the ultimate outsider, and the ultimate immortal of them all'.
Anne Rice spent ten years researching this book, studying ancient texts and the work of scholars, and has visited Nazareth, Jerusalem and Bethlehem. She is the internationally bestselling author of 'The Vampire Chronicles', including Interview with the Vampire (filmed by Neil Jordan, starring Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt), The Tale of the Body Thief and, most recently, Blood Canticle. The musical Lestat, with music by Elton John will open on Broadway in April 2006. Her other fiction includes the shorter vampire novels, Pandora and Vittorio the Vampire, as well as The Witching Hour, Lasher, The Mummy, The Feast of All Saints and Cry to Heaven (soon to be a major film). She was born in New Orleans, where she lived for many years, and now lives in California.
Praise for Christ the Lord"
""Riveting. . . . Rice's book is a triumph of tone -- her prose
lean, lyrical, vivid -- and character. As he ponders his staggering
responsibility, the boy is fully believable -- and yet there's
something in his supernatural empathy and blazing intelligence that
conveys the wondrousness of a boy like no other. . . . With this
novel, she has indeed found a convincing version of him; this is
fiction that transcends story and instead qualifies as an act of
faith. Joins Nikos Kazantzakis's The Last Temptation" of Christ"
and Endo's A Life of Jesus as one of the bolder re-tellings."
--"Kirkus Reviews" (starred) Praise for Blood Canticle"
""When Anne Rice releases a new book in The Vampire Chronicles
series, cheers from her huge fan base can be heard everywhere."
--"The Edmonton Journal" "From the Hardcover edition."
Praise for Christ the Lord"
"" Riveting. . . . Rice's book is a triumph of tone -- her prose
lean, lyrical, vivid -- and character. As he ponders his staggering
responsibility, the boy is fully believable -- and yet there's
something in his supernatural empathy and blazing intelligence that
conveys the wondrousness of a boy like no other. . . . With this
novel, she has indeed found a convincing version of him; this is
fiction that transcends story and instead qualifies as an act of
faith. Joins Nikos Kazantzakis's The Last Temptation" of Christ"
and Endo's A Life of Jesus as one of the bolder re-tellings."
-- "Kirkus Reviews" (starred) Praise for Blood Canticle"
"" When Anne Rice releases a new book in The Vampire Chronicles
series, cheers from her huge fan base can be heard everywhere."
-- "The Edmonton Journal" "From the Hardcover edition."
Having wrapped up her work on vampires and witches, Rice turns to something a bit more orthodox? Evidently based on New Testament scholarship; with a ten-city tour. Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.
Rice departs from her usual subject matter to pen this curious portrait of a seven-year-old Jesus, who departs Egypt with his family to return home to Nazareth. Rice's painstaking historical research is obvious throughout, whether she's showing the differences among first-century Jewish groups (Pharisees, Essenes and Sadducees all play a part), imagining a Passover pilgrimage to Jerusalem or depicting the regular but violent rebellions by Jews chafing under Roman rule. The book succeeds in capturing Jesus' profound Jewishness, with some of the best scenes reflecting his Torah education and immersion in the oral traditions of the Hebrew Bible. As fiction, though, the book's first half is slow going. Since it is told from Jesus' perspective, the childlike language can be simplistic, though as readers persevere they will discover the riches of the sparse prose Rice adopts. The emotional heart of the story-Jesus' gradual discovery of the miraculous birth his parents have never discussed with him-picks up steam as well, as he begins to understand why he can heal the sick and raise the dead. Rice provides a moving afterword, in which she describes her recent return to the Catholic faith and evaluates, often in an amusingly strident fashion, the state of biblical studies today. (Nov. 7) Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.
Praise for Christ the Lord"
""Riveting. . . . Rice's book is a triumph of tone -- her prose
lean, lyrical, vivid -- and character. As he ponders his staggering
responsibility, the boy is fully believable -- and yet there's
something in his supernatural empathy and blazing intelligence that
conveys the wondrousness of a boy like no other. . . . With this
novel, she has indeed found a convincing version of him; this is
fiction that transcends story and instead qualifies as an act of
faith. Joins Nikos Kazantzakis's The Last Temptation" of Christ"
and Endo's A Life of Jesus as one of the bolder re-tellings."
--"Kirkus Reviews" (starred)
Praise for Blood Canticle"
""When Anne Rice releases a new book in The Vampire Chronicles
series, cheers from her huge fan base can be heard everywhere."
--"The Edmonton Journal" "From the Hardcover edition."
Praise for Blood Canticle"
"" When Anne Rice releases a new book in The Vampire Chronicles
series, cheers from her huge fan base can be heard everywhere."
-- "The Edmonton Journal" "From the Hardcover edition."
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