{"id":2893,"date":"2011-04-09T00:28:33","date_gmt":"2011-04-09T07:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2011\/04\/mark-lawson-hails-james-freys-new-messiah\/"},"modified":"2012-03-21T14:21:07","modified_gmt":"2012-03-21T21:21:07","slug":"mark-lawson-hails-james-freys-new-messiah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2011\/04\/09\/mark-lawson-hails-james-freys-new-messiah\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Lawson hails James Frey&#8217;s new Messiah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/2011\/apr\/09\/james-frey-final-testament-review\" target=\"_blank\">from The Guardian<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h1>The Final Testament of the Holy Bible by James Frey &#8211; review<\/h1>\n<h2>Mark Lawson hails James Frey&#8217;s new Messiah<\/h2>\n<ul style=\"border-collapse: collapse; list-style-type: none; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\">\n<li class=\"byline\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; font-weight: normal; display: block; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\"><span itemprop=\"reviewer\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse; font-weight: bold; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/profile\/marklawson\" class=\"contributor\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse; color: #005689; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\" target=\"_blank\">Mark Lawson<\/a><\/span>\u00a0\/\u00a0<time itemprop=\"dtreviewed\" datetime=\"2011-04-09\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\">Saturday 9 April 2011<\/time><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.guim.co.uk\/sys-images\/Books\/Pix\/covers\/2011\/4\/5\/1302019535320\/The-Final-Testament-of-the-H.jpg\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"15\" width=\"140\" height=\"215\" align=\"left\" \/>Christian worshippers recite the Nicene Creed, which includes the promise that Jesus Christ will &#8220;come again&#8221;. This article of faith provides the epigraph to a novel in which\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/james-frey\" title=\"More from guardian.co.uk on James Frey\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse; color: #005689; text-decoration: none; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\" target=\"_blank\">James Frey<\/a>\u00a0imagines the Anglican and Roman Catholic faithful of modern New York being confronted with the apparent answer to their prayer.<\/p>\n<p>The fate that would await a contemporary messiah has long been a standard essay topic in religious education classes and is also regularly attempted in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/fiction\" title=\"More from guardian.co.uk on Fiction\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse; color: #005689; text-decoration: none; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\" target=\"_blank\">fiction<\/a>. These comeback narratives divide between stories in which the status of the saviour figure remains ambiguous, such as John Irving&#8217;s\u00a0<em style=\"border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\">A Prayer for Owen Meany<\/em>, and fiction in which someone directly claims to be Christ for present times. Frey&#8217;s book extends the second genre \u2013 his hero has the beard of conventional iconography and a gaze said to resemble &#8220;being stared down by a statue&#8221; \u2013 although it surely represents a first in the dust-jacket&#8217;s startling affirmation of an overlap between protagonist and author.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/2011\/apr\/09\/james-frey-final-testament-review\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading review at The Guardian<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Guardian The Final Testament of the Holy Bible by James Frey &#8211; review Mark Lawson hails James Frey&#8217;s new Messiah Mark Lawson\u00a0\/\u00a0Saturday 9 April 2011 Christian worshippers recite the Nicene Creed, which includes the promise that Jesus Christ will &#8220;come again&#8221;. This article of faith provides the epigraph to a novel in which\u00a0James [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literary-news","category-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}