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Article: After dark fiction, finding faith.(BOOKS)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- December 21, 2008
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Byline: James E. Person Jr. , SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES
CALLED OUT OF DARKNESS: A SPIRITUAL CONFESSION
By Anne Rice
Knopf, $23.95, 256 pages
REVIEWED BY JAMES E. PERSON JR.
At one point in his novel A Clergyman's Daughter, George Orwell claimed, Faith vanishes, but the need for faith remains the same as before. Orwell, that most thoughtful and intelligent of agnostics, stated a truth plain to see in the lives around us: Those who reject the religious faith of their youth often yearn for a lost something in their lives and seek to fill that vacuum with a host of substitutes, none of them entirely satisfactory. Over the ...