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A novel about the early years of Christ, based on the Gospels and on respected New Testament scholarship.
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.
I was seven
years old. What do you know when you're seven years old? All my life, or
so I thought, we'd been in the city of Alexandria, in the Street of the
Carpenters, with the other Galileans, and sooner or later we were going
home.
Late afternoon. We were playing, my gang against his, and when he ran at
me again, bully that he was, bigger than me, and catching me off
balance, I felt the power go out of me as I shouted: "You'll never get
where you're going."
He fell down white in the sandy earth, and they all crowded around him.
The sun was hot and my chest was heaving as I looked at him. He was so
limp.
In the snap of two fingers everyone drew back. It seemed the whole
street went quiet except for the carpenters' hammers. I'd never heard
such a quiet.
"He's ...
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