Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt - Brossura

Rice, Anne

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ISBN 10: 0676978959 ISBN 13: 9780676978957

Casa editrice: Vintage Canada, 2008

Riassunto

Having completed the two cycles of legend to which she has devoted her career so far, Anne Rice gives us now her most ambitious and courageous book, a novel about the early years of CHRIST THE LORD, based on the Gospels and on the most respected New Testament scholarship.

The book’s power derives from the passion its author brings to the writing and the way in which she summons up the voice, the presence, the words of Jesus who tells the story.
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Praise for Christ the Lord

“Rice blends Gospel fact with popular myth to create a finely tuned work of historical fiction.”
—Edmonton Journal

“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.”
—The New York Times

“Riveting. . . . Rice’s book is a triumph of tone–her prose lean, lyrical, vivid–and character. . . . This is fiction that transcends story and instead qualifies as an act of faith.”
—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

“Her most daring book yet. . . . Rice shows she still has her great gift to imbue gothic chills with moral complexity and heartfelt sorrow.”
—Newsweek

“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

L'autore

Anne Rice is the author of twenty-six books. She lives in La Jolla, California.
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• Editore: Vintage Canada
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0676978959
• ISBN 13: 9780676978957
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 384