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Cry to Heaven Mass market paperbound - 1995

by Anne Rice

They were the castrati--male sopranos whose glorious voices brought them adulation throughout Europe even as they were despised as "monsters". For Tonio Treschi, the child of Venetian nobility, kidnapped and castrated in a murderous family conspiracy, only one thing would soothe his soul--revenge!


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GUIDO MAFFEO was castrated when he was six years old and sent to study with the finest singing masters in Naples.

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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 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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  • Title Cry to Heaven
  • Author Anne Rice
  • Binding Mass Market Paperbound
  • Edition [ Edition: First
  • Pages 576
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Ballantine Books, New York
  • Date April 1, 1995
  • ISBN 9780345396938 / 0345396936
  • Weight 0.6 lbs (0.27 kg)
  • Dimensions 6.86 x 4.17 x 1.24 in (17.42 x 10.59 x 3.15 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Castrati - Italy, Singers - Italy
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 91091924
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

About the author

Anne Rice is the author of thirty-seven books, including the Vampire Chronicles, the Lives of the Mayfair Witches, and the Wolf Gift book series. Rice was born in New Orleans in 1941 and grew up there and in Texas. She lived in San Francisco with her husband, the poet and painter, Stan Rice until 1988, when they returned to New Orleans to live with their son, Christopher. In 2006, Rice moved to Rancho Mirage, California. She died in 2021.
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