Christ the Lord: The Road to Cana (Christ the Lord) by Anne Rice
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Book Summary Author: Anne Rice Edition: Hardcover Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published) Published: 2008-03-04 ISBN: 1400043522 Number of pages: 256 Publisher: Knopf |
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Book Reviews of the Christ the Lord: The Road to Cana (Christ the Lord)
Customer Review: THE JOURNEY CONTINUES. BRILLIANTLY!
Summary: 5 Stars
Not only did I love this book and think it may be Anne Rice's best work to date, I also feel that it can be appreciated by both believers and non-believers alike.
Following upon the first, superb volume in her Christ the Lord series, Rice continues her first person account of the life of Jesus (Yeshua) in this spectacular and moving volume two: The Road to Cana.
The tale picks up with Yeshua at thirty years old, livng and working on the eve of his ministry, struggling to come to terms with both his human and divine identities. Certain of who he is from page one ("I'm Christ the Lord"), he wrestles with others and himself over his own expectations of himself.
His family and friends are eager for him to marry and are exasperated at his reticence to do so, as is the beautiful, passionate Avigail, who's deeply in love with him. The tensions also mount as he anxiously awaits for the moment to reveal his identity and commence his ministry.
Rice's stirring rendering follows Yeshua as he struggles to balance both the human and the divine within him. The reader is drawn close to him by Rice's powerful, meditative, transcendant depiction. We follow along as he fights against the ignorance and cruelty that leads to the stoning of two youths suspected of homosexuality. We share his anguish when scandal falls upon the innocent, desperate Avigail. We marvel at the stirring sequences with John the Baptist. Especially dramatic is Yeshua's encounter with Satan in the desert, as spellbing as any passage with the vampires and witches of Rice's earlier work.
One of the most moving closing chapters in literature history, one which always moves me to tears, shows Yeshua at the wedding of Avigail, as he shepards her toward a union with another man, forever giving up any possibility of a life with her, of a "normal" life, as he performs his first miracle and gathers his disciples about him and prepares to go out into the world and finally begin his ministry.
Throughout the entire novel Rice seamlessly weaves the delicate balance of humanity and divinity in her portrait of Yeshua. This depiction is born from both deep personal faith and from a wealth of research and just as with Out of Egypt, the result is highly inspirational to believers and, at the very least, a great, thoughtful read even for non-believers.
This is a huge achievement for Anne Rice and leaves one waiting anxiously for the next installment just as for years we eagerly awaited each upcoming journey of Lestat. Thank you, Anne, and God bless you.