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Violin : A Novel by Anne Rice, 1941- is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Violin : A Novel about?

Advice to Rice: don't write so much. She could have easily skipped her latest novel. She simply doles out hackneyed Rice themes and motifs and expects them to fly. They don't. In her New Orleans home, 54-year-old Triana Becker attends her partner Karl's death by AIDS; despite her focus on this horrible experience transpiring before her eyes, she is distracted by a violin-playing figure stepping in and out of shadows. Triana, in adolescence, had wanted to be a concert violinist, but the dream never materialized. Now she is seduced by this elusive figure's playing, and his seductiveness draws her into his netherworld, where she must encounter not only troubled memories but also the apparition's troubled past. But his violin--in her hands, will it give her the star-musician status she always dreamed of possessing? By the time that question is answered, the reader is weary of Rice's clumsy prose style and her lack of inventiveness in terms of plot. But she has fans galore, so be prepared for high demand.

Who reads Violin : A Novel?

Author

Anne Rice, 1941-

Publisher

Random House Publishing Group

Published

1999

Language

EN

ISBN

9780345425300

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Romance

Rating

3.26 / 5 (355 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14