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In 2005, Anne Rice startled her readers with her book Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt, and by uncovering that, after years as an atheist, she possessed went back to her Catholic faith.
Christ the Lord: The Road to Cana followed.
And now, in her powerful and haunting memoir, Rice instructs the story of the religious transformation that produced a whole change in her literary goals.
She starts with her girlhood in New Orleans as the devout child in a deeply religious Irish Catholic family. She identifies how, as she grew up, she lost her perception in God, but not her desire for a important life.
She writes about her years in radical Berkeley, where her job as a novelist started with the publication of Interview with the Vampire, soon to be accompanied by more books about otherworldly beings, about the realms of good and evil, love and alienation, pageantry and ritual, each reflecting aspects of her often agonizing moral quest.
She writes about loss and tragedy (her mother’s drinking; the death of her daughter and, later, her favorite husband, Stan Rice); about new joys; about the birth of her son, Christopher; about the family’s come back in 1988 to the city of New Orleans, the city that motivated so much of her work. She instructs how after a grown-up lifetime of questioning, she experienced the powerful change and consecration to Christ that lay behind her latest books.
For her readers old and new, this book explores her continuing interior pilgrimage.
