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Anne Rice built her literary reputation through an elaborately constructed Gothic horror mythology of vampires and witches. But now Rice, who has returned to the Catholic faith of her youth, eschews these dark, unholy topics in favor of the sacred, with this first in a series of retellings of the life of Jesus, inspired by the New Testament, scholarly histories, and the Apocrypha. In this first-person account, seven-year-old Jesus studies with the scholar Philo; moves with his family from Alexandria, Egypt, to Nazareth in Roman-ruled Israel; performs miracles; and confronts Satan, all the while aware that he is different from other children, but not entirely sure why.
| Size | | Length: | 321 pages | | Height: | 9.8 in | | Width: | 6.3 in | | Thickness: | 1.2 in | | Weight: | 20.0 oz |
Industry Reviews
"Rice's painstaking historical research is obvious throughout....[R]eaders...will discover the riches of the sparse prose Rice adopts."
Publishers Weekly (10/10/2005)
"A riveting, reverent imagining of the hidden years of the child Jesus....Rice's book is a triumph of tone--her prose lean, lyrical, vivid--and character.....[T]his is fiction that transcends story and instead qualifies as an act of faith." (starred review)
Kirkus (10/15/2005)
"[Rice] writes this book in a simpler, leaner style [than her vampire novels], 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."
New York Times - Janet Maslin (11/03/2005)
"[S]urely the most literary of...[Rice's] books....[T]he meticulous attention in OUT OF EGYPT to the way faith and communal bonds permeate every aspect of Jesus' family life makes for a far more persuasive picture of spirituality than the operatic agonies of Lestat and his immortal friends."
Salon - Laura Miller (11/03/2005)
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