Anne Rice recounts her devout Catholic childhood in New Orleans, loss of faith, vampire novels, personal tragedies, and return to Catholicism in this spiritual memoir.
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Anne Rice recounts her devout Catholic childhood in New Orleans, loss of faith, vampire novels, personal tragedies, and return to Catholicism in this spiritual memoir.
In 2005, Anne Rice startled her readers with her novel Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt, and by revealing that, after years as an atheist, she had returned to her Catholic faith.Christ the Lord: The Road to Cana followed.And now, in her powerful and haunting memoir, Rice tells the story of the spiritual transformation that produced a complete change in her literary goals.She begins with her girlhood in New Orleans as the devout child in a deeply religious Irish Catholic family. She describes how, a...
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Mentions of personal losses and deaths
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Mother's drinking problem discussed as part of family history
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Central narrative of Catholic childhood, loss of faith, and adult conversion
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Reflects on vampire novels as metaphors for loss of faith
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Tragedies including daughter's death, husband's death, and mother's alcoholism
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