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# More on Anne Rice's New Novel
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/2852/
- Published: 2005-10-27T23:06:48.000Z
- Updated: 2005-10-27T23:06:48.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: Books, #wpChunk

Quite frankly, the project gives me a chill, but she has me interested:

> In two weeks, Anne Rice, the chronicler of vampires, witches and–under the pseudonym A. N. Roquelaure–of soft-core S&M encounters, will publish "Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt," a novel about the 7-year-old Jesus, narrated by Christ himself. "I promised," she says, "that from now on I would write only for the Lord." It's the most startling public turnaround since Bob Dylan's "Slow Train Coming" announced that he'd been born again. . .

> But she sees a continuity with her old books, whose compulsive, conscience-stricken evildoers reflect her long spiritual unease. "I mean, I was in despair." In that afterword she calls Christ "the ultimate supernatural hero ... the ultimate immortal of them all." . . .

> Rice's most daring move, though, is to try to get inside the head of a 7-year-old kid who's intermittently aware that he's also God Almighty. "There were times when I thought I couldn't do it," she admits. The advance notices say she's pulled it off: Kirkus Reviews' starred rave pronounces her Jesus "fully believable." But it's hard to imagine all readers will be convinced when he delivers such lines as "And there came in a flash to me a feeling of understanding everything, everything!"

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