Anne Riceis the author of twenty-six books. She lives in La Jolla,
California.
www.annerice.com
What the critics are saying about
Anne Rice's
"Christ the Lord
"
"A riveting, reverent imagining of the hidden years of the child
Jesus . . . A triumph of tone--her prose lean, vivid--and character
. . . "Christ the Lord" is a cross between a historical novel and
an update of Tolstoy's "The Gospels in Brief," it presents Jesus as
nature mystic, healer, prophet and very much a real young boy . . .
Essentially it's a mystery story, of the child grappling to
understand his miraculous gifts and numinous birth . . . 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, Anne Rice has indeed found a
convincing version of him; this is fiction that transcends story
and instead qualifies as an act of faith."
--"Kirkus Reviews"
"Rice retains our rapt attention with the use of small, visceral
details. We can almost taste the food Jesus would have eaten,
experience the sights and sounds, the chaos and bustle of a large
clan, with which he would have been familiar."
--Bernadette Murphy, "The Los Angeles Times"
"Rice is as serious as a Commandment, and has muscled up her story
of the junior Jesus by obsessively researchig the most minute
detail of family, communal and religious life in first-century
Palestine. . . . Rice is just as ambitious, much more orthodox and
just getting warming up . . . From Lestat the vampire to Jesus the
Lord is a supernatural stretch but Rice makes it.
Convincingly."
--Bill Bell, "Daily News"
"Well-researched and nicely written and Rice uses restraint in
telling her tale. She believably represents Jesus' gradual
understanding of his origins and fate. . . . Reverent and often
moving."
--Natalie Danford, "People"
"[Rice] writes this book in a simpler, leaner style, giving it the
slow but inexorable rhythm of an i
What the critics are saying about
Anne Rice' s
"Christ the Lord
"
" A riveting, reverent imagining of the hidden years of the child
Jesus . . . A triumph of tone-- her prose lean, vivid-- and
character . . . "Christ the Lord" is a cross between a historical
novel and an update of Tolstoy's "The Gospels in Brief," it
presents Jesus as nature mystic, healer, prophet and very much a
real young boy . . . Essentially it's a mystery story, of the child
grappling to understand his miraculous gifts and numinous birth . .
. 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, Anne Rice has indeed found a
convincing version of him; this is fiction that transcends story
and instead qualifies as an act of faith."
-- "Kirkus Reviews"
" Rice retains our rapt attention with the use of small, visceral
details. We can almost taste the food Jesus would have eaten,
experience the sights and sounds, the chaos and bustle of a large
clan, with which he would have been familiar."
-- Bernadette Murphy, "The Los Angeles Times"
" Rice is as serious as a Commandment, and has muscled up her story
of the junior Jesus by obsessively researchig the most minute
detail of family, communal and religious life in first-century
Palestine. . . . Rice is just as ambitious, much more orthodox and
just getting warming up . . . From Lestat the vampire to Jesus the
Lord is a supernatural stretch but Rice makes it.
Convincingly."
-- Bill Bell, "Daily News"
" Well-researched and nicely written and Rice uses restraint in
telling her tale. She believably represents Jesus' gradual
understanding of his origins and fate. . . . Reverent and often
moving."
-- Natalie Danford, "People"
" [Rice] writes this book in a simpler, leaner style, giving it the
slow but inexorable rhythm of an incantation. The restraint and
prayerful beauty of "Christ the Lord" is apt to surprise her usual
readers and attract new ones."
-- Janet Maslin, "The New York Times"
" Rice brings the same passion to her colorful account of the young
Jesus and his quest to understand his strange powers (turning clay
pigeons into live birds, bringing a dead child back to life). . . .
In her attempt to breathe life into a historical religious figure,
Rice's superb storytelling skills enable her to succeed where many
other writers have failed. . . . Highly recommended."
-- "Library Journal"
" This is, in fact, an intensely literal, historical, reverent
treatment of a year in the life of Jesus, son of God, written in
simple, sedate language that steers clear of both clanging
anachronisms and those King Jamesian ye's and unto's and
begats."
-- Lev Grossman, "Time"
" In "Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt," Anne Rice scores a direct
hit: By embracing the miraculous, she manages to give us a Jesus
who is divinely human."
-- Frank Wilson, "The Philadelphia Inquirer"
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.
What the critics are saying about
Anne Rice's
"Christ the Lord
"
"A riveting, reverent imagining of the hidden years of the child
Jesus . . . A triumph of tone--her prose lean, vivid--and character
. . . "Christ the Lord" is a cross between a historical novel and
an update of Tolstoy's "The Gospels in Brief," it presents Jesus as
nature mystic, healer, prophet and very much a real young boy . . .
Essentially it's a mystery story, of the child grappling to
understand his miraculous gifts and numinous birth . . . 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, Anne Rice has indeed found a
convincing version of him; this is fiction that transcends story
and instead qualifies as an act of faith."
--"Kirkus Reviews"
"Rice retains our rapt attention with the use of small, visceral
details. We can almost taste the food Jesus would have eaten,
experience the sights and sounds, the chaos and bustle of a large
clan, with which he would have been familiar."
--Bernadette Murphy, "The Los Angeles Times"
"Rice is as serious as a Commandment, and has muscled up her story
of the junior Jesus by obsessively researchig the most minute
detail of family, communal and religious life in first-century
Palestine. . . . Rice is just as ambitious, much more orthodox and
just getting warming up . . . From Lestat the vampire to Jesus the
Lord is a supernatural stretch but Rice makes it.
Convincingly."
--Bill Bell, "Daily News"
"Well-researched and nicely written and Rice uses restraint in
telling her tale. She believably represents Jesus' gradual
understanding of his origins and fate. . . . Reverent and often
moving."
--Natalie Danford, "People"
"[Rice] writes this book in a simpler, leaner style, giving it the
slow but inexorable rhythm of an i
What the critics are saying about
Anne Rice' s
"Christ the Lord
"
" A riveting, reverent imagining of the hidden years of the child
Jesus . . . A triumph of tone-- her prose lean, vivid-- and
character . . . "Christ the Lord" is a cross between a historical
novel and an update of Tolstoy's "The Gospels in Brief," it
presents Jesus as nature mystic, healer, prophet and very much a
real young boy . . . Essentially it's a mystery story, of the child
grappling to understand his miraculous gifts and numinous birth . .
. 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, Anne Rice has indeed found a
convincing version of him; this is fiction that transcends story
and instead qualifies as an act of faith."
-- "Kirkus Reviews"
" Rice retains our rapt attention with the use of small, visceral
details. We can almost taste the food Jesus would have eaten,
experience the sights and sounds, the chaos and bustle of a large
clan, with which he would have been familiar."
-- Bernadette Murphy, "The Los Angeles Times"
" Rice is as serious as a Commandment, and has muscled up her story
of the junior Jesus by obsessively researchig the most minute
detail of family, communal and religious life in first-century
Palestine. . . . Rice is just as ambitious, much more orthodox and
just getting warming up . . . From Lestat the vampire to Jesus the
Lord is a supernatural stretch but Rice makes it.
Convincingly."
-- Bill Bell, "Daily News"
" Well-researched and nicely written and Rice uses restraint in
telling her tale. She believably represents Jesus' gradual
understanding of his origins and fate. . . . Reverent and often
moving."
-- Natalie Danford, "People"
" [Rice] writes this book in a simpler, leaner style, giving it the
slow but inexorable rhythm of an incantation. The restraint and
prayerful beauty of "Christ the Lord" is apt to surprise her usual
readers and attract new ones."
-- Janet Maslin, "The New York Times"
" Rice brings the same passion to her colorful account of the young
Jesus and his quest to understand his strange powers (turning clay
pigeons into live birds, bringing a dead child back to life). . . .
In her attempt to breathe life into a historical religious figure,
Rice's superb storytelling skills enable her to succeed where many
other writers have failed. . . . Highly recommended."
-- "Library Journal"
" This is, in fact, an intensely literal, historical, reverent
treatment of a year in the life of Jesus, son of God, written in
simple, sedate language that steers clear of both clanging
anachronisms and those King Jamesian ye's and unto's and
begats."
-- Lev Grossman, "Time"
" In "Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt," Anne Rice scores a direct
hit: By embracing the miraculous, she manages to give us a Jesus
who is divinely human."
-- Frank Wilson, "The Philadelphia Inquirer"
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