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<p><P>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.<br>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&#151;a tale that challenges our deepest images of the masculine and the feminine.<br>&quot;To read Anne Rice is to become giddy as if spinning thro

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Author

Anne Rice; OverDrive, Inc

Publisher

Ballantine Books, Knopf : Distributed by Random House

Published

1995

Language

EN

ISBN

9783891927748

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Romance

Rating

3.83 / 5 (17,116 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13