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Books on : Literature & Fiction : Genre Fiction : Horror : Authors, A-Z : ( R ) : Rice, Anne : Hardcover
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Anne Rice’s second book in her hugely ambitious and courageous life of Christ begins during his last winter before his baptism in the Jordan and concludes with the miracle at Cana.
It is a novel in which we see Jesus—he is called Yeshua bar Joseph—during a winter of no rain, endless dust, and talk of trouble in Judea.
Legends of a Virgin birth have long surrounded Yeshua, yet for decades he has lived as one among many who come to the synagogue on the Sabbath. All who know and love him find themselves waiting for some sign of the path he will eventually take.
And at last we see him emerge from his baptism to confront his destiny—and the Devil. We see what happens when he takes the water of six great limestone jars, transforms it into cool red wine, is recognized as the anointed one, and urged to call all Israel to take up arms against Rome and follow him as the prophets have foretold.
As with Out of Egypt, the opening novel, The Road to Cana is based on the Gospels and on the most respected New Testament scholarship. The book’s power derives from the profound feeling its author brings to the writing and the way in which she summons up the presence of Jesus.
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Anne Rice's richly told new novel for the first time weaves together two irresistible worlds - the witches' world and the vampires' world - in a dance of seduction, death and rebirth.
Lestat's mesmerizing friend Louis de Pointe du Lac is tortured by the memory of the child vampire Claudia, whom he loved and lost. With the help of David Talbot, vampire and ultimate fixer from the secret Talamasca organization, Louis appeals to Merrick, the beautiful, mixed-race, illegitimate daughter of the New Orleans Mayfair clan. Merrick must use her black witchcraft to call up the ghost of Claudia - however dangerous this may be - and her search takes her close to the edge, through blood and terror, voodoo and violence.
Sweeping from New Orleans to the Guatemalan jungle, this is vampire literature at its most hypnotic, exotic and splendid.
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CLUB REVIEW Give inthere is no point to resisting. Anne Rices vampire novels are nothing less than ravishing. Now The Literary Guild has collected these modern classics into a single elegant volumefrom our first mesmerizing interview with the seductively cruel Louis to our last breathtaking encounter with the ancient (and very testy) mother of all vampires, Akasha. In between we tag along as LestatLouiss mentor in dark deedsstruts his stuff as a 1980s rock star. Transporting us from century to century, and from New Orleans to Paris and back, Rices vampire fiction is unrelentingly erotic, sometimes beautiful, and always unforgettable, says The Washington Post. Explicit sex, violence.
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