from the Sydney Morning Herald

Jesus is a horny drunk? Welcome back, James Frey

Tim Elliott / April 16, 2011

He's not the Messiah ... Frey relishes the prospect of riling the Christin right with his moden-day Jesus. 

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The bad boy of American letters tells TIM ELLIOTT his new novel is ”entirely grounded in research”.

Meet Jesus Christ. Not the Sunday school Jesus Christ or the guy you saw in King of Kings, with the high cheekbones and cool beard.

No, meet author James Frey’s Jesus Christ, a horny drunk who gets about in piss-stained pants, a dumpster-diving free love enthusiast who sleeps on benches and has gay sex with Born Again preachers and who, when he isn’t turning water into wine or healing paraplegics, plays video games in his rent-assisted Bronx apartment.

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