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Cry to Heaven
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In a sweeping saga of music and vengeance, the acclaimed author of The Vampire Chronicles draws readers into eighteenth-century Italy, bringing to life the decadence beneath the shimmering surface of Venice, the wild frivolity of Naples, and the magnetic terror of its shadow, Vesuvius. This is the story of the castrati, the exquisite and otherworldly sopranos whose graceful bodies and glorious voices win the adulation of royal courts and grand opera houses throughout Europe. These men are revered as idols—and, at the same time, scorned for all they are not. * * * **Praise for Anne Rice and *Cry to Heaven*** * * * “Daring and imaginative . . . [Anne] Rice seems like nothing less than a magician: It is a pure and uncanny talent that can give a voice to monsters and angels both.” **— *The New York Times Book Review*** “To read Anne Rice is to become giddy as if spinnning through the mind of time.” **— *San Francisco Chronicle*** “If you surrender and go with her . . . you have surrendered to enchantment, as in a voluptuous dream.” **— *The Boston Globe*** “Rice is eerily good at making the impossible seem self-evident.” **— *Time***
| About Author | Anne Rice (born Howard Allen Frances O'Brien) is a best-selling American author of gothic, supernatural, historical, erotica, and later religious themed books. Best known for The Vampire Chronicles, h |
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| Author | Anne Rice |
| Format | Ebook |
| ISBN | 9780345396938 |
| Language | English |
| Pages | 580 |
| Publication Date | 03-31-1995 |
| Publisher | Ballantine Books |
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More specifically, it’s about families of origin versus found families, and the marks both leave on a person. The narrative is divided between Guido, a castrati from a peasant background, and Tonio, a castrati from a patrician background. Guido is given to the conservatory as a young child and falls in love with singing, only to lose his voice before his career can really take off. He has to find himself again as a composer and instructor. Meanwhile, Tonio is raised as the scion of an important Venetian family. He adores singing but he had never given serious consideration to pursuing it as a career — until a family betrayal forces him to accept training at the conservatory where Guido is now an instructor. Guido and Tonio both struggle to adapt to unforeseen and unwanted circumstances, to forge new identities for themselves out of the ashes of the old ones. Mount Vesuvius is wonderfully used as a motif for this searching. The great wonder of this novel is in watching these two learn self-acceptance, forgiveness, and discovering vocational satisfaction and interpersonal relationships which would not have been possible for them in the conscripted worlds they came from. It’s one of those books where something so outrageous can happen that you’ll throw the book across the room but then you’ll scramble over to retrieve it because you can’t bear not knowing what happens next. This is definitely one for the keeper shelf, even though you may only want to reread it every couple of years.