The Night Watch (50 page)

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Anne Rice

In eighteenth-century Italy the Castrati recreated heaven on earth. Their exquisite voices soared above the glittering world of courtiers and nobility. Those who achieved fame were showered with riches and sexual favours, but their success also hid a terrible sadness.

Tonio, of noble birth, is the victim of a vengeful brother. Disinherited and forced to join the ranks of the Castrati, he plans his revenge while striving to become the greatest of all singers. Guido, sacrificed to the knife at an early age, composes opera and dreams of the perfect voice to give it life. He discovers Tonio and becomes his teacher. As together they reach the very pinnacle of success, Tonio is pushed to the extremes of endurance as he tries to resolve his lust for glory, and for vengeance . ..

'Bewitching writing'
Sunday Correspondent

This is a novel dazzling in its darkness . . . Bold and erotic,
laced with sexual tension and music, a spellbinding story... It
is a pure and uncanny talent'
The New York Times Book Review

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At the centre of Anne Rice's brilliant novel, the beautiful Rowan Mayfair, queen of the coven, must flee from the darkly brutal, yet irresistible demon known as Lasher. With a dreamlike power, this wickedly seductive entity draws us through twilight paths, telling a chillingly hypnotic story of spiritual aspirations and passion ...

'Behind all the velvet drapes and gossamer winding sheets, this is an old-fashioned family saga ... Rice's descriptive writing is so opulent it almost begs to be read by candlelight'
The Washington Post Book World

'Erotic . .. Eetic . . . Horrifying ... A tight tale of the occult in
present-day New Orleans'
Denver Post

'The sequel and conclusion to Rice's
The Witching Hour
shows
Rice at her best... the novel lights up with rocket blast'
Kirkus Reviews

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Anne Rice

On the verandah of a great New Orleans house, now faded, a mute and fragile woman sits rocking. And the witching hour begins...

Demonstrating once again her gift for spellbinding storytelling and the creation of legend, Anne Rice makes real for us a great dynasty of witches in this engrossing nad hypnotic tale of the occult spanning four centuries – a family given to poetry and incest, to murder and philosophy, a family that over the ages is itself haunted by a powerful, dangerous, and seductive being.

'Compelling... Sensuous... Engrossing... Rich'
The Wall Street Journal

'Rice goes for the jugular with morbid delights, sexually
charged passages and wicked, wild tragedy'
Publishers Weekly

'Vintage Rice ... lush prose, dense atmosphere, steamy sex,
gothic tension'
San Francisco Chronicle

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