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Christ the Lord

The Road to Cana

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| Hardcover | 9781400043521

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Book Description

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 raContinue

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Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt by Anne Rice 336pp, Chatto & Windus, £17.99 You might think it just a short hop from vampires to Jesus Christ: the undead, blood sacrifice, transubstantiation of flesh into food, that sort of thing. Anne Rice, recently c ... (read full critics)

guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

The Best Reviews: Anne Rice, Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt

"Terrific look at Jesus the child" At seven years of age Jesus was living on the Street of Carpenters in Alexandria Egypt, an ordinary child who played and learned the studies all Jewish boys must know. The fact that he turned clay pigeons into real ... (read full critics)

thebestreviews published on Thu, 16 Sep 2010

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A great follow-up to Rice's wonderfully fresh first novel in this series. I actually ended up reading this straight through in about 3 hours. It surprised me by starting much later in Jesus' life but covered some important points very well. Again, I wholeheartedly recommend this.

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