| Angel Time: The Songs of the Seraphim, Book One Contributor(s): Rice, Anne (Author) |
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ISBN: 1400043530 ISBN-13: 9781400043538 Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group OUR PRICE: $23.36 Product Type: Hardcover Published: October 2009 Annotation: Having completed the two cycles of legend to which she has devoted her career so far, Anne Rice gives us now her most ambitious and courageous book, a novel about the early years of CHRIST THE LORD, based on the Gospels and on the most respected New Testament scholarship. The book's power derives from the passion its author brings to the writing and the way in which she summons up the voice, the presence, the words of Jesus who tells the story. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Visionary & Metaphysical - Fiction | Thrillers - Suspense - Fiction | Historical - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2009015470 |
| Series: Songs of the Seraphim |
| Physical Information: 1.06" H x 6.48" W x 9.64" (1.11 lbs) 288 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Medieval (500-1453) - Cultural Region - British Isles - Topical - Angels |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 134245 Reading Level: 6.5 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 14.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Anne Rice returns to the mesmerizing storytelling that has captivated readers for more than three decades in a tale of unceasing suspense set in time past--a metaphysical thriller about angels and assassins. The novel opens in the present. At its center: Toby O'Dare--a contract killer of underground fame on assignment to kill once again. A soulless soul, a dead man walking, he lives under a series of aliases--just now: Lucky the Fox--and takes his orders from "The Right Man." Into O'Dare's nightmarish world of lone and lethal missions comes a mysterious stranger, a seraph, who offers him a chance to save rather than destroy lives. O'Dare, who long ago dreamt of being a priest but instead came to embody danger and violence, seizes his chance. Now he is carried back through the ages to thirteenth-century England, to dark realms where accusations of ritual murder have been made against Jews, where children suddenly die or disappear . . . In this primitive setting, O'Dare begins his perilous quest for salvation, a journey of danger and flight, loyalty and betrayal, selflessness and love. |