Pilate
Published on 2. March 2000
Book
Paperback/Softback
416 pages
978-0-09-928793-3 (ISBN)
Description
Although very little is known for certain about Pontius Pilate, the man who crucified Christ, this has not stopped writers in every age from imagining his life. In this extraordinary book, Ann Wroe recounts the lives of all our Pilates; among them the glittering medieval tyrant, devoted to gambling and getting around the law, and the wriggling modern pragmatist, whose dilemma over Jesus has been described by Tony Blair as 'a timeless parable of political life'. This is also the story of the man Pilate might have been; and the man who mirrors us. Ann Wroe shows how, in his struggles with fate and free will, Pilate's story has also become the story of ourselves.
Reviews / Votes
The touch of a master novelist... Few have ever explored so imaginatively, or with such passionate attention to detail' * Sunday Telegraph * Because so little is known, it is possible to speculate endlessly. If one's mind is a brilliant engine of speculation like Wroe's, then one is dazzlingly equipped to do so. Her book is excellent and discloses an intense imaginative sympathy, a lyricism, and a fine-tuned psychological perception * Daily Express * Wroe is a creative, even a beautiful writer... It is a wonderfully enjoyable, rich, generous book -- A.N.Wilson * Daily Mail * Extraordinary and compelling -- Victoria Glendinning * Daily Telegraph * She manages always to keep Pilate living and breathing in the text, and occasionally kicking and screaming * Independent on Sunday *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Vintage Publishing
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 201 mm
Width: 132 mm
Thickness: 29 mm
Weight
286 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-09-928793-3 (9780099287933)
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Ann Wroe is the Obituaries editor of The Economist, and has written its weekly obituary for almost two decades. She is the author of eight previous works of non-fiction, including biographies of Pontius Pilate (shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Award and the W.H. Smith Award), Perkin Warbeck, Shelley, Orpheus (winner of the Criticos Prize) and St Francis. She lives in Brighton and London.