At times, the writing is lovely: when Nadzam is describing the countryside, or when Lamb slips into storytelling mode. The Lamb," then, is a kind of hymn to God, praising God's creation while also implying that humankind has lost the ability to appreciate it fully. David Fear of Rolling Stone described the film as "the odd, unsettling, soon-to-be-your-cult-movie-of-choice straight outta Iceland", and wrote: "It's the sweetest, most touching waking nightmare you've ever experienced. Suspenseful drama and murky territory keeps the reader edgy and off-balance, but there were some pages that stagnated and recycled the drama a bit.

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There is a sense that the narrator's ambiguity is deliberate (I mean deliberate on the part of the narrator rather than the author), and that the aim of the narrative may not be what it seems to be. The slippery, shifting narrative is like a voice whispering in the reader's ear, inviting them to be complicit in Lamb's actions ('there was nothing wrong with that, was there? The book opens with: We’ll say this all began just outside of Chicago, in late summer on a residential street dead-ending in a wall. Joe Morgenstern of The Wall Street Journal described the film as "a shaggy lamb story expertly told. A large portion of the book contains stories of the adventures which Biff and Joshua have while visiting the three wise men who, according to tradition, were the first gentiles to see the baby Jesus in Bethlehem.

Lamb decides to teach Tommie and her friends a lesson by showing her what could have happened if he were any "other" sort of man. There is evidence that points to the last theory, especially when we briefly learn what grown-up Tommie thinks about her transformational experience. He wants her to absolve him, to testify to his goodness, to give him back some of the innocence of his lost adolescence. In the scene in which Joshua and Biff are departing from Melchior’s house, for instance, the wise man makes his bold confession: “We were seekers.

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With his father gone, his marriage dissolved, and his coworker-turned-lover, Linnie, at risk of losing her job at the firm because of her sexual involvement with David, Lamb concocts a plan to abduct Tommie to his cabin in the Rocky Mountains because “this sudden and unusual friendship—might be the only bright spot, the only break in her otherwise unscripted life.His manipulation is both of the girl and others (his girlfriend from work; neighbours), and the reader (although it's not a first person narration). But no one knows about the early life of the Son of God, the missing years — except Biff, the Messiahs best bud, who has been resurrected to tell the story in the divinely hilarious yet heartfelt work “reminiscent of Vonnegut and Douglas Adams” ( Philadelphia Inquirer). After his partner encourages him to take some time off to cool an affair he has going with a subordinate, Lamb encounters an 11-year-old girl and decides to take her along on his vacation. Joshua was bumping people in the crowd as he passed, seemingly on purpose, and murmuring just loud enough so I could hear him each time he hit someone with a shoulder or an elbow. She holds a BA from Carleton College, an MFA from Arizona State University, and an MA and PhD from the University of Southern California.