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
Just sent her 20 bucks. Thanks for posting the link to her brother's blog.
ReplyDeleteDear Jeff,
ReplyDeleteMany thanks both for your generosity and for your note here. I really appreciate it.
shalom,
Steven
Steven, Thank you so much for linking to this, you have helped me more than you know. It is amazing the connections you can make through the blogosphere! Thanks again and God Bless you in all that you do!
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Dear Anna,
ReplyDeleteIt is my pleasure. You have a truly lovely voice. I look forward to hearing you in the future.
Thank you for taking the time to write.
Shalom,
Steven