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the gospel according to anne
author rice asks, what would jesus do?
suck on this, lestat: anne rice has a new leading man. after decades
of writing dense novels about witches, vampires, and other
paranormal beings, the gothic author is tackling an even more
supernatural subject: jesus christ. rice's "christ the lord", due
out in november from random house and partly based on the "most
respected new testament scholarship", will tell the story of the
christian savior's early years in his own words, a conceit similar
to that of norman mailer's 1997 novel, "the gospel according to the
son." rice, who has even abandoned her beloved new orleans, explains
her motivates in a lengthy letter that will accompany advance review
copies of the book this summer (exclusively excerpted below.)
whether christians appreciate the queen of the damned writing about
their lord is unclear, but mel gibson might want to look into the
movie rights. -gilbert cruz
Dear Reader,
For over ten years I've wanted to do this book- Jesus in his own
words. For five years I've been obsessed with how to do it, and for
the last three years I've been consumed with nothing else.
The ultimate questions, the ones distilled from a thousand others,
were so obvious as to be frightening. What does it feel like to be
Jesus? What did it feel like to be God and Man as a child?... In all
my career, I don't think I've ever faced such a daunting task. And
there were moments when I came near to giving up. I prayed. I asked
for guidance. I scrapped hundreds of pages. At moments, I was on the
verge of accepting that perhaps I couldn't do what had to be done
here...
I'm not a priest. I can't be one. I'll never be able to go to the
altar of the Lord and say the words of consecration at Mass, "This
is my body. This is my blood." No, I can't work that magnificient
Eucharistic miracle. But in humility, I have attempted something
transformative which we writers dare to call a miracle in the
imperfect human idiom we possess. It's to bring Him here in the form
of a story, and that story is Christ the Lord.
Sincerely,
Anne Rice
author rice asks, what would jesus do?
suck on this, lestat: anne rice has a new leading man. after decades
of writing dense novels about witches, vampires, and other
paranormal beings, the gothic author is tackling an even more
supernatural subject: jesus christ. rice's "christ the lord", due
out in november from random house and partly based on the "most
respected new testament scholarship", will tell the story of the
christian savior's early years in his own words, a conceit similar
to that of norman mailer's 1997 novel, "the gospel according to the
son." rice, who has even abandoned her beloved new orleans, explains
her motivates in a lengthy letter that will accompany advance review
copies of the book this summer (exclusively excerpted below.)
whether christians appreciate the queen of the damned writing about
their lord is unclear, but mel gibson might want to look into the
movie rights. -gilbert cruz
Dear Reader,
For over ten years I've wanted to do this book- Jesus in his own
words. For five years I've been obsessed with how to do it, and for
the last three years I've been consumed with nothing else.
The ultimate questions, the ones distilled from a thousand others,
were so obvious as to be frightening. What does it feel like to be
Jesus? What did it feel like to be God and Man as a child?... In all
my career, I don't think I've ever faced such a daunting task. And
there were moments when I came near to giving up. I prayed. I asked
for guidance. I scrapped hundreds of pages. At moments, I was on the
verge of accepting that perhaps I couldn't do what had to be done
here...
I'm not a priest. I can't be one. I'll never be able to go to the
altar of the Lord and say the words of consecration at Mass, "This
is my body. This is my blood." No, I can't work that magnificient
Eucharistic miracle. But in humility, I have attempted something
transformative which we writers dare to call a miracle in the
imperfect human idiom we possess. It's to bring Him here in the form
of a story, and that story is Christ the Lord.
Sincerely,
Anne Rice
