Cry to Heaven
of Anne Rice
Description
Anne Rice brings to life 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.
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Book Details
- Format Paperback
- Pages 566 pages
- Publisher Ballantine Books
- Publication Date April 1st 1995
- First Publication 10/28/82
- Language English
- ISBN 9780345396938
- Edition Not informed
- Category Fiction
- Scenario ['Italy']
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