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Eighteenth-century Naples provides the setting for the pain, fears, resentments, desires, and triumphs of peasant-born Guido Mafio and patrician-born Tonio Tresci, two castrati--mentor and angel-voiced student--who strive passionately to live full lives. Reissue.
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Anne Rice is the author of thirty-two books. She lives in Palm Desert, California.
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Anne Rice demonstrates her power to enthrall the reader as she makes real for us the exalted and fearful life of an extraordinary society--the eighteenth-century world of the castrati, the male sopranos whose glorious voices, unmatched by any singers since their time, brought them the adulation of the royal courts and grand opera houses of Europe. This is a novel that charms, shocks, and moves us by its portrayal of passionate and fascinating lives, by its re-creation of a strange and exotic moment in history--and by the ways in which it considers, and adds resonance to, our deepest images of the masculine and the feminine. It is a mesmerizing feat of storytelling.
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Cry to Heaven
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Seller: Nooks Of Books , Elkins Park, PA, U.S.A.
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Hard Cover. First Edition. 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." Purchase with confidence: all books, gradings, and descriptions are rendered the care of a genuine bibliophile. Satisfaction guaranteed or all costs you've incurred will be promptly refunded. Thanks for your interest in Nooks Of Books. Seller Inventory # 107-5186
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+ DJ. Book Club Edition. Knopf : Distributed by Random House 1982 Book Club Edition Fine/Very Good+ DJ Unread. Slight shelfwear to bright dust jacket #4867. HEAVY ITEM 1.5 Pounds. Size: 8 1/2 x 5 3/4 x 1 1/2 inches. No Exp. Seller Inventory # 2000039966
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Cry to Heaven
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Seller: Turn the Page, Albany, NY, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Cry to Heaven by Anne Rice. Alfred A. Knopf, 1982. Stated first edition hardcover in near fine condition; clean boards, tight binding, clean pages, minimal shelfwear and edgewear.; text block clean, tight, untoned. Tight binding. Dust jacket glossy and vibrant, unclipped at $15.95, but there are several tears repaired with archival tape and has a wrinkled appearance. (see photos) Cry to Heaven is Anne Rice's lush historical novel set in 18th-century Italy, exploring the world of the castrati - male singers whose voices, artistry and suffering shaped an era. Published by Alfred A Knopf in 1982, this stated first edition marked Rice's return to richly textured historical storytelling after Interview with the Vampire and The Feast of All Saints. Copies in this condition with intact, if repaired, jackets remain collectible as early examples of her signature gothic-historical fusion. Seller Inventory # 001132