title: Christ the Lord: The Road to Cana
author:  Anne Rice 
description: Starred Review. In the New Testament, the miracle at the wedding at Cana-where Jesus turned water into wine-marks the commencement of his tumultuous three-year ministry. In Rice's beautifully observed novel, a sequel to 2005's <I>Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt</I>, however, the wedding miracle is in fact the culmination of an intimate family saga of love, sorrow and misunderstanding. As the novel opens, Yeshua (Jesus) struggles with a sense of restlessness of purpose and a deep love for a comely kinswoman. Waves of isolation sweep over him as he comes to understand that serving the Lord's will takes precedence over the desires of his own heart. Whereas the first novel in this series hewed so closely to Scripture and to the author's meticulous research as to be somewhat arid as fiction, this book, imagining the "lost" young adulthood of Jesus, offers wise and haunting speculation where the Bible is silent. And the final chapters, which pick up the story with the New Testament's accounts of Jesus' baptism, temptation and early miracles, manage to be soulfully insightful even while faithfully tracking the Gospels. Rice undertakes a delicate balance: if it is possible to create a character that is simultaneously fully human and fully divine, as ancient Christian creeds assert, then Rice succeeds. <I>(Mar.)</I> <BR>Copyright &copy; Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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  **The Road to Cana**  
  
  Anne Rice
  
  THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK
  
  PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A . KNOPF
  
  AND ALFRED A . KNOPF CANADA
  
  Copyright © 2008 by Anne O'Brien Rice
  
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  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
  
  Rice, Anne, [date]
  
  Christ the Lord : the road to Cana : a novel / by Anne Rice.—1st ed.
  
  p.cm. eISBN: 978-0-307-26874-7
  
  1\. Jesus Christ—Fiction. 2. Bible. N.T.—History of Biblical events—Fiction.
  I. Title.
  
  PS3568.1265C48 2005
  
  813'.54—dc22
  
  2005044077
  
  Library and Archives Canada Cataloging in Publication Rice, Anne, [date]
  
  Christ the Lord : the road to Cana / Anne Rice.
  
  1\. Jesus Christ—Ficti