 | 1. | Rice, Anne Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt
USA. Alfred Knopf. 2005. First edition. First printing. Hardcover. New. Very fine. New. Very fine. 8 vo. Signed by Anne Rice.
SYNOPSIS - This is the book Anne Rice was born to write, a novel about the childhood of Jesus from Alexandra to Galilee in the turbulent 1st century - the story of the boy who was born to be King of the Jews, the 'ultimate supernatural hero, the ultimate outsider, and the ultimate immortal'. Incomparable in its boldness and daring, shockingly timely in its evocation of the Middle Eastern world in another era, hers is a unique and palpable rendering of part of the greatest story ever told. Evoking this crucial time in the life of Christ, based on the Gospels and her intense research into the period, Anne Rice magically recreates these years of drama, confusion, and enlightenment. The story opens in cosmopolitan Alexandria where the family has fled. But, when Herod dies, they take ship for Israel, a land under Roman occupation at a time of insurrection and confusion after the death of a tyrant king. It is an astonishing child's eye view - part innocent, part knowing - of Jewish life in these unruly years of occupation; and of the boy's growing awareness, first of his extraordinary powers, and then of the whispered mysteries surrounding his birth.
Price: 40.00 GBP
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