Cry To Heaven
by Anne Rice
- Used
- good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Good
- ISBN 10
- 0099471388
- ISBN 13
- 9780099471387
- Seller
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About This Item
Hutchinson, UK, 2004. Paperback. Good. Paperback. 582 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Hutchinson, UK, 2004. *** CONDITION: This book is in good condition. More specifically: Covers have light creasing. Edges of covers have moderate edgewear and corners are moderately bumped. Spine has moderate reading creases. . Pages are lightly tanned. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: Eighteenth-century Naples provides the setting for the pain, fears, resentments, desires, and triumphs of peasant-born Guido Maffeo and patrician-born Tonio Treschi, two castrati--mentor and angel-voiced student--who strive passionately to live full lives. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; Horror; ISBN: 0099471388. ISBN/EAN: 9780099471387. Inventory No: 23040005.. 9780099471387
Reviews
On Apr 17 2021, a reader said:
One of the most beautiful, sensual, fascinating novels I've read to date.
This novel revolves around the mysterious and widely unknown world of the 18th century Italian castrati singers; men who were gelded before puberty in order to retain their otherworldly soprano vocal abilities. These singers were revered throughout Europe, performed for kings, queens, emperors and the societal elite. At the same time, on a more personal level, they were often feared, misunderstood, even loathed because of their tall, willowy bodies which were unlike any other people. On stage, they were the celebrities of the age, yet so little is known of them in today's general modern cultural context.
With "Cry to Heaven", Anne Rice has wondrously and respectfully removed the shades of secrecy and "shame" surrounding the castrati, told through the story of Antonio Treschi, the golden-voiced, rebellious son of a prominent, respected nobleman and senator in 18th century Venice.
This novel and its exhaustively-researched historical setting is spectacularly written, impeccably told, and deftly draws the reader into the story and the period, and doesn't let go until the final, breathless, heart-pounding page.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Manyhills Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 23040005
- Title
- Cry To Heaven
- Author
- Anne Rice
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0099471388
- ISBN 13
- 9780099471387
- Publisher
- Hutchinson
- Place of Publication
- UK
- Date Published
- 2004
- Keywords
- BZDB5 Fiction; Cry To Heaven
- Bookseller catalogs
- Horror; Fiction;
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