Paperback, 336 pages
English language
Published Feb. 26, 2008 by Ballantine Books.
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.From the Hardcover edition.
A different start for Anne Rice from her Vampire Chronicles; the first book in Christ the Lord series has a first-person POV. I felt at times, to show Jesus as a human, Rice has crying frequently which had me thinking that boy surely deserves a nice smacking.
