RICE'S `CHRIST' READS LIKE A COMIC BOOK STATEWIDE Edition

• Published in: The Hartford courant
• Main Authors: Reed, Kit, Special to The Courant, Kit Reed's new novel, "The Baby Merchant," will be published in June
• Format: Newspaper Article
• Language: English
• Published: Hartford, Conn Tribune Interactive, LLC 27.11.2005
• Subjects: Rice, Anne

Why, then, does this stately, reverent, exhaustively researched depiction of Jesus in early childhood unfold like a comic superhero origin story? The kind in which Clark Kent discovers that his parents are not from around here, and he's not like everybody else? The kind in which the Kent family...