Just recently finished reading Anne Rice's new novel Christ the Lord. The legendary vampiress sunk her teeth into a novel imagining the world of the young Jesus of Nazareth after her conversion to Christianity in 1998. Told through the eyes of Jesus, we get a glimpse into the mind of a child becoming aware of his complex destiny. Though fictional, Rice states that her main source was the adult nature of Jesus presented in the four gospels. It is also interesting to get a view into the scholarly research Rice has immersed herself in for the past 8 yrs to better understand Christianity and to give backbone to writing Christ the Lord.
To her past reader's Rice extends this thought in her dense Author's Note, "I offer this novel with love to my readers who've followed me through one strange turn after another in the hope that Jesus will be as real to you as any other character I've ever launched into the world we share. After all, is Christ Our Lord not the ultimate supernatural hero, the ultimate outsider, the ultimate immortal of them all?
To her past reader's Rice extends this thought in her dense Author's Note, "I offer this novel with love to my readers who've followed me through one strange turn after another in the hope that Jesus will be as real to you as any other character I've ever launched into the world we share. After all, is Christ Our Lord not the ultimate supernatural hero, the ultimate outsider, the ultimate immortal of them all?
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