CRY TO HEAVEN - Anne Rice

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~ Trade Paperback Superstars of eighteenth-century Europe, the Castrati is a society of children mutilated to create a choir of seraphim, their voices a cry to heaven that the heav ens did not hear . . . A sweeping saga of music and vengeance, Anne Rice brings to life in Cry to Heaven 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, but these men who lived as idols, concealed their inner pain as they were adored as angels, yet shunned as half-men. “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 Show more