Since we’re on the subject of erotic novels with sacriligous angel mythology (*waves to the AFA*), if you haven’t read The Vintner’s Luck, run, don’t walk to find yourself a copy of this unfortunately out of print novel. I’ve probably never read more beautiful prose than Elizabeth Knox’s in this book which is by turns a murder mystery, a love story and a medtitation on mortality. Rumors have circulated for the last year or so that it’s going to be made into a movie by the team that did Whale Rider, a notion which makes somewhat more sense if you know Knox is a New Zealander. Speculation as to who will play Xas, the angel who is clearly male in form at the center of the novel, have included Gaspard Ulliel and Keisha Castle-Hughes (whose ability to play masculine androgyny I’m more than a little doubtful of. Give me Tilda Swinton as the angel Gabriel in Constantine any day).
