![]() ![]() “Rice is eerily good at making the impossible seem self-evident. you have surrendered to enchantment, as in a voluptuous dream.”-The Boston Globe “To read Anne Rice is to become giddy as if spinnning through the mind of time.”-San Francisco Chronicle Rice seems like nothing less than a magician: It is a pure and uncanny talent that can give a voice to monsters and angels both.”-The New York Times Book Review As you read CRY TO HEAVEN, you lose yourself in all the grandeur of eighteenth century Italian life and the otherworldy society of the castrati. ![]() Anne Rice has a real gift for transporting her readers to a different time and place. These men are revered as idols-and, at the same time, scorned for all they are not. CRY TO HEAVEN is my favorite Anne Rice novel, next to MEMNOCH THE DEVIL. This is the story of the castrati, the exquisite and otherworldly sopranos whose graceful bodies and glorious voices win the adulation of royal courts and grand opera houses throughout Europe. In a sweeping saga of music and vengeance, the acclaimed author of The Vampire Chronicles draws readers into eighteenth-century Italy, bringing to life the decadence beneath the shimmering surface of Venice, the wild frivolity of Naples, and the magnetic terror of its shadow, Vesuvius. ![]()
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