Type: Hardcover Condition: Used, Great. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. Light rubbing wear on the cover and spine. No folded pages, no notes, no underlines or markings on the pages. Details: Christ the Lord: The Road to Cana, by Anne Rice *First Edition ISBN: 9780676978070 Pages: 242 Published: 2008 ANNE RICE'S SECOND BOOK in her hugely am- bitious and courageous life of Christ begins during his last winter before his baptism in the Jordan and concludes with the miracle at Cana. It is a novel in which we see Jesus- he is called Yeshua bar Joseph- during a winter of no rain, end- less dust, and talk of trouble in Judea. Legends of a Virgin birth have long surrounded Yeshua, yet for decades he has lived as one among many who come to the synagogue on the Sabbath. All who know and love him find themselves waiting for some sign of the path he will eventually take. And at last we see him emerge from his baptism to confront his destiny-_and the Devil. We see what happens when he takes the water of six great lime- stone jars, transforms it into cool red wine, is recog- nized as the anointed one, and urged to call all Israel to take up arms against Rome and follow him as the prophets have foretold. As with Out of Egypt, the opening novel, The Road to Cana is based on the Gospels and on the most respected New Testament scholarship. The books power derives from the profound feeling its author brings to the writing and the way in which she sum- mons up the presence of Jesus.