Review copy received 11/04/09 From the time of its announcement, I had been looking forward to this new book by Anne Rice. As I say in every review, I am not a die-hard Anne Rice fan. I found Interview with a Vampire interesting and intriguing, but in hindsight, must lay much of the responsibility of the current vampire as victim and love-object obsession at its feet. After that, I had no patience with her writing until Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt. In that book I observed a kind of control and authorial voice that I had not seen in any of the books I had sampled since Interview . So too with Christ the Lord: The Road to Cana. Perhaps because of the subject matter, perhaps for other reasons, these two books seemed to witness a level of control of language and story that the other books did not. Gone were messy florid passages that lavished two, three, four paragraphs on the description of the lace and flounce of a jabot. These new books were spare, polished, poetic. The
While in grad school, I don't think I ever heard Powys' name mentioned, even in passing. I know I never took a class which included him on the reading list.
ReplyDeleteA short time ago, while browsing in a used book store, I ran across a book by Powys, _Three Fantasies_.
It's no doubt a coincidence that your reference came now when I'm finishing up the third and last tale. All three can best be described as quirky fantasies.