In 2006, Rice moved to Rancho Mirage, California. 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 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. Rice was born in New Orleans in 1941 and grew up there and in Texas. you have surrendered to enchantment, as in a voluptuous dream." - The Boston Globe "Rice is eerily good at making the impossible seem self-evident." - Time 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. Anne Rice, best-selling novelist who helped launch a vampire revival, dies at 80 Her first novel, ‘Interview With the Vampire,’ kicked off a blockbuster book series and was adapted into a movie. 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 "To read Anne Rice is to become giddy as if spinnning through the mind of time." - San Francisco Chronicle "If you surrender and go with her. These men are revered as idols-and, at the same time, scorned for all they are not.
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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