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Anne Rice Cry to Heaven
Ballantine Books 0345396936 / 9780345396938 MASS MARKET PAPERBACK Fair
0345396936 Editorial Reviews n nAmazon Review nThe acclaimed author of Servant of the Bones 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. n nReview nAnne Rice seems to be at home everywhere...She makes us believe everything she sees. -- The New York Times Book Review n nIf you surrender and go with her, you will find that you have surrendered to enchantments, as if in a voluptuous dream. -- The Boston Globe
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Anne Rice Entrevista con el vampiro (Punto de Lectura) (Spanish Edition)
Suma De Letras 8495501252 / 9788495501257 MASS MARKET PAPERBACK New
8495501252 Book Description nThe story is ostensibly a simple one: having suffered a tremendous personal loss, an 18th-century Louisiana plantation owner named Louis Pointe du Lac descends into an alcoholic stupor. At his emotional nadir, he is confronted by Lestat, a charismatic and powerful vampire who chooses Louis to be his fledgling. The two prey on innocents, give their dark gift to a young girl, and seek out others of their kind (notably the ancient vampire Armand) in Paris. n nBlurb in Spanish:Louis, un antiguo hacendado de ascendencia francesa desesperado por la muerte de su esposa e hijo, es un vampiro que decide contar su historia. Tanto invoca a la muerte que Lestat, un vampiro que vive desde hace cuatrocientos a±os, acude a su llamada y le convierte, por medio de un mordisco, en un ser despiadado e inmortal en contra de su propia voluntad. n nSu ·nica alegr?a serß una ni±a, Claudia, a la que, paradojicamente, salvarß de la muerte mordi?ndola. Desde entonces, la historia pasa por diferentes estadios: la descripci?n de la familia de vampiros, el hast?o de Louis y su inconformidad con su estado actual, la muerte de la ni±a rebelde o el enfrentamiento con el mßs viejo de los vampiros, Armand, que estß enamorado de Louis.
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Anne Rice La Reina De Los Condenados / Queen of the Damned (Spanish Edition)
Aims Intl Books Corp 8448040031 / 9788448040031 PAPERBACK Very Good
8448040031 From Publishers Weekly nTurned into a major frontline film in 2002, this 1988 blockbuster is the third part of the vampire chronicles that made Rice famous. The gory and erotic novel promises to be a hot item for those familiar with Rice's previous work. [The other books in the series are also available from Punto de Lectura. Ed.] nCopyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. n nProduct Description nIn this third installment of the Vampire Chronicles, Lestat greedily prowls San Francisco in search of new blood. His kiss awakens Queen Akasha, once the Queen of the Nile, from her 6,000-year sleep. Furious about male violence, she immediately begins a wholesale slaughter of most of the world's vampires, sparing only a small group (including Lestat), who she expects will join her in a crazed crusade against male mortals.
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Anne Rice Lestat el Vampiro (Spanish Edition)
Ediciones B 844064227X / 9788440642271 MASS MARKET PAPERBACK Very Good
844064227X Editorial Reviews nAmazon Review nLestat, the vampire hero of Interview with the Vampire is back. Once an aristocrat on the heady days of pre-revolutionary France, now a rock star in the demonic, shimmering 1980's, he rushes through the centuries in search of others like him, seeking answers to the mystery of his eternal, terrifying existence. His is a mesmerizing story - passionate, complex, and thrilling. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. n nReview nBrilliant...Extravagant...frightening and surprising. -- The New York Times Book Review n nFiercely ambitious, nothing less than a complete unnatural history of vampires. -- The Village Voice n nFrightening, sensual...a psychological, mythical sojourn...Anne Rice will live on through the ages of literature...to read her is to become giddy as if spinning through the mind of time, to become light-headed as if our blood is slowly being drained away. -- San Francisco Chronicle --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Anne Rice Pandora (New Tales of the Vampires)
Ballantine Books 0345422384 / 9780345422385 MASS MARKET PAPERBACK Fine
0345422384 Editorial Reviews n nAmazon.com Review nAnne Rice fans will greet Pandora: New Tales of the Vampires, the first of her new vampire chronicles, as hungrily as the Fang Gang facing a fresh new neck. Our heroine, Pandora, a senator's daughter in Augustus Caesar's day, flees to Antioch when her family gets killed and discovers the antidote to stern Roman rationalism in the occult wisdom of the East. "Something attacked my reason," Pandora writes. "The very thing the Roman Emperors had so feared in Egyptian cults and Oriental cults swept over me: mystery and emotion which claim a superiority to reason and law." n nPandora gets her sexy vampire initiation at the fangs of handsome Marius (who later inducted Rice's famed vampire Lestat). Pandora tells how a nice Roman girl became a vampire in modern Paris, but mostly the book celebrates the sights and sounds (and philosophical bloodlettings) of the classical world. Pandora is more like Robert Graves's sublime I, Claudius than Rice's The Complete Vampire Chronicles. n nYet Pandora is a logical extension of Rice's work, and Pandora is a combination of her past vampire heroes and the nakedly, horrifyingly autobiographical heroine of Rice's 1997 novel Violin. Now, Violin is remarkably messy, but it captures the volcanic passion that erupts in her best work--Rice calls it "a study in pain." Pandora is really a dramatized debate between passion and reason, which Pandora calls "male reason." She teases her vampire mentor: "Marius guarded his delicate rationality as a Vestal Virgin guards a sacred flame. If ever any ecstatic emotion took hold of me, he [would] tell me in no uncertain terms that it was irrational, irrational, irrational!" (To hear how close Pandora's voice is to her passionate creator, listen to the 1997 audiocassette Interview with Anne Rice.) n nRice's research gives fresh blood to her storytelling. Even her chronic third-act problem scarcely slows down this brisk romp of a novel. Pandora has intellectual thirst as well as blood lust, and she conveys the high old time Rice obviously had imbibing historical lore. "It is fun to read these mad Gnostics!" exults Pandora in the early Christian era. It is also fun to read this mad Pandora. Anne Rice hasn't been this fun to read in years. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. n nFrom Publishers Weekly nAlthough Rice bid goodbye to the vampire Lestat in Memnoch the Devil, her fifth novel in The Vampire Chronicles, she has not abandoned vampires altogether. Two installments are planned this year in her New Tales of the Vampires series, and in the first of these, the ancient vampire Pandora tells her story. Urged on by David Talbot?fledgling vampire, self-appointed chronicler and former psychic detective?Pandora documents in sophisticated detail her pre-vampire existence as the privileged daughter of a Roman senator. She's a curious character, first introduced in The Queen of the Damned, in which Marius described her as the Greek courtesan who seduced him into making her a vampire and helped him care for the vampire progenitors until strife forced them apart. Here, Pandora herself sets the record straight. Born early in Augustus's reign, the educated, spirited Pandora was no courtesan?though we do see her challenge the sexual mores of her moment. When Tiberius brings chaos to Rome, and dishonor and death to Pandora's family, she goes to Antioch and tries to solve the mystery of her compelling blood dreams about Egypt. There, she reunites with her childhood crush, Marius, and learns from him what it means to be a vampire. Along the way, we find little of Rice's trademark eroticism, but Pandora has long been one of her more elusive characters, so fans will relish this vivid rendering of her life and times. Random House audio. nCopyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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Anne Rice Taltos
Arrow Books 0099436817 / 9780099436812 PAPERBACK Very Good
0099436817 Editorial Reviews nAmazon Review nIn a swirling universe filled with death and life, corruption and innocence, this mesmerizing novel takes us on a wondrous journey back through the centuries to a civilization half-human, of wholly mysterious origin, at odds with mortality and immortality, justice and guilt. It is an enchanted, hypnotic world that could only come from the imagination of Anne Rice... --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. From Publishers Weekly nCutting-edge gene mapping intertwines with ancient mysteries in this continuation of Rice's series of novels about witches and the supernatural. A taltos is the superhuman result of the crossbreeding of two human witches who possess an extra chromosome; almost a monster, the creature is capable of beastly behavior fuelled by an extraordinary sex drive. In Lasher , the eponymous offspring of Michael Curry and Rowan Mayfair of the New Orleans Mayfair witch clan proved to be just such a mutant; before he was slain, he repeatedly raped his own mother, siring a little goblin daughter, Emaleth. This new novel features a second taltos, also fathered by Curry, but mothered by a 13-year-old sexpot niece of Rowan's named Mona, who is herself the most powerful witch of the Mayfair clan. Other plot elements involve renegade members of the secret order of Talamasca, who want to kidnap and crossbreed two taltoses; a 200-year-old taltos from New York named Ashlar, who is posing as a toy-industry magnate specializing in dolls; and a dwarf called Samuel from the witches' holy glen in Donnelaith, Scotland. Pulsing with a persisent sense of foreboding, the novel is soggy with meandering, atmospheric prose that verges on softcore porn. And, as usual, what happens in the book is clearly less important to the author than the number of chills she can send down readers' spines. She has not lost her touch. 600,000 first printing; Literary Guild main selection. nCopyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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Anne Rice Vampire Armand (Vampire Chronicles)
Chatto & Windus 0701167173 / 9780701167172 Hardcover Good
0701167173 Amazon Review nIn the familiar style of vampire as seducer, narrator Alfred Molina (Boogie Nights) uses his smooth, tranquil voice to excellent effect, luring listeners ever deeper into the dark, mysterious, and blood-soaked world of The Vampire Armand. Rice has crafted an intriguing plot, one that expands on events from her earlier books, yet stands alone as a compelling exploration of the Cimmerian secrets that have shaded one of her most fascinating characters. Molina is a talented reader, and he revels here in the expertly crafted story line, lush language, and tortured emotions of a haunted soul caught in the eternal darkness that lurks between the living and the dead. (Running time: four hours, four cassettes) --George Laney --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. n nFrom Publishers Weekly nFantasy's great advantage is that authors can make anything happen?even rewriting their own stories, as Rice does here. Readers of her 1995 novel, Memnoch the Devil, will recall that the vampire Armand ended his existence by stepping into the sun. Since he was a popular character from earlier tales, a resounding protest from fans followed. In response, Rice concocted a way in this, her seventh Vampire Chronicle since Interview with the Vampire (1976), to raise Armand from the dead. He is, in fact, the narrator of this story, in which he looks back on his earthly existence, revisiting his apprenticeship in 16th-century Venice to the regal vampire artist, Marius De Romanus, who saved his life with the kiss of immortality. Afterward, Armand returned to his Russian homeland, but when disaster parted him from Marius, he became the nihilistic leader of a pack of Parisian vampires. Rice offers exquisite details of erotic romps and political intrigues while reprising other material familiar to her fans, but finally returns to the pressing question of what happened to Armand in the sun's lethal rays. She supplies a vivid and resonant description of the experience, set against the counterpoint of Beethoven's Appassionata. Unfortunately, she dims the effect by dragging Armand through rambling scenes involving two odd children, Sybelle and Benji. Otherwise, this is a lavishly poetic recital in which Armand struggles with the fragility of religious belief. The final scene is a stunner. Editor, Victoria Wilson; agent, Lynn Nesbit. First printing 750,000; BOMC main selection; simultaneously available in audio and large-print editions. nCopyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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