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Cry to Heaven

By Anne Rice

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| Mass Market Paperback | 9780345396938

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In this mesmerizing novel, the acclaimed author of THE VAMPIRE CHRONICLES and the LIVES OF THE MAYFAIR WITCHES makes real for us the exquisite and otherworldly society of the eighteenth-century castrati, the delicate and alluring male sopranos whose graceful bodies and glorious voices brought them tContinue

In this mesmerizing novel, the acclaimed author of THE VAMPIRE CHRONICLES and the LIVES OF THE MAYFAIR WITCHES makes real for us the exquisite and otherworldly society of the eighteenth-century castrati, the delicate and alluring male sopranos whose graceful bodies and glorious voices brought them the adulation of the royal courts and grand opera houses of Europe, men who lived as idols, concealing their pain as they were adored as angels, yet shunned as half-men.
As we are drawn into their dark and luminous story, as the crowds of Venetians, Neopolitans, and Romans, noblemen and peasants, musicians, prelates, princes, saints, and intriguers swirl around them, Anne Rice brings us into the sweep of eighteenth-century Italian life, into the decadence beneath the shimmering surface of Venice, the wild frivolity of Naples, and the magnetic terror of its shadow, Vesuvius. It is a novel that only Anne Rice could have written, taking us into a heartbreaking and enchanting moment in history, a time of great ambition and great suffering--a tale that challenges our deepest images of the masculine and the feminine.
"To read Anne Rice is to become giddy as if spinning through the mind of time."
--San Francisco Chronicle
"Dazzling in its darkness...Spellbinding."
--The New York Times

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    I could not imagine, before reading this book, that any book of Anne Rice could passionate me more than The Witching Hour. And of Vampires I had enough, as well.

    But... Cry to Heaven does. The music, the sexual struggle, as usual, Rice's desire to describe everything not how it is but how affects t ... (continue)

    I could not imagine, before reading this book, that any book of Anne Rice could passionate me more than The Witching Hour. And of Vampires I had enough, as well.

    But... Cry to Heaven does. The music, the sexual struggle, as usual, Rice's desire to describe everything not how it is but how affects the characters. Its like you are reading and feel the urge to listen... at least some Vivaldi, Corelli, who knows... something of that time, to feel the mood completely. And to have something, after reading the book, which reminds you of the whole thing.

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    chioru - ki said on Sep 13, 2010 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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