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Rice, Anne Cry to Heaven
New York Alfred a Knopf Inc 1982 0-394-52351-2 / 9780394523514 First Edition Hard Cover
Fine in a Very Good dustjacket. Black boards quarterbound in black cloth. The spine is stamped in gilt. Quarto. 534pps. Stated First Edition. There is a faint pencil-erasure (of price) in the upper corner of the ffep., otherwise Fine: clean, tight, square, and bright. All tips are sharp. No apparent reading wear and no previous ownership markings. The dustjacket, glossy in a new mylar sleeve, is lightly rubbed and soiled, has a 2" closed tear at the bottom of the front panel and a smaller tear with an attendant crease at the bottom of the rear panel; the original price (15.95) is intact. A nice copy of the author's third novel.
"...In this mesmerizing novel, the acclaimed author of 'Interview With the Vampire' 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..."
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40.00 USD
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