Cry to Heaven

Cry to Heaven

✍ Anne Rice 📂 Fiction 📅 1982;2010 🏛 Random House Publishing Group;Ballantine Books 🌐 English ⚖ 341 KB

They were the castrati--male sopranos whose glorious voices brought them adulation throughout Europe even as they were despised as "monsters". For Tonio Treschi, the child of Venetian nobility, kidnapped and castrated in a murderous family conspiracy, only one thing would soothe his soul--revenge!

Cry to heaven

✍ Anne Rice 📂 Fiction 📅 1995;2010 🏛 Random House, Inc.;Ballantine Books 🌐 English ⚖ 361 KB

SUMMARY: In this mesmerizing novel, the acclaimed author of THE VAMPIRE CHRONICLES and the LIVES OF THE MAYFAIR WITCHES makes real for us the exquisite and otherworldly society of the eighteenth-century castrati, the delicate and alluring male sopranos whose graceful bodies and glorious voices bro

Cry to heaven

✍ Anne Rice 📂 Fiction 📅 1995;2010 🏛 RANDOM HOUSE-UK;Ballantine Books 🌐 English ⚖ 342 KB

SUMMARY: In this mesmerizing novel, the acclaimed author of THE VAMPIRE CHRONICLES and the LIVES OF THE MAYFAIR WITCHES makes real for us the exquisite and otherworldly society of the eighteenth-century castrati, the delicate and alluring male sopranos whose graceful bodies and glorious voices bro

Cry to Heaven

✍ Anne Rice 📂 Fiction 📅 1981;2010 🏛 Random House Publishing Group;Ballantine Books 🌐 English ⚖ 342 KB

They were the castrati--male sopranos whose glorious voices brought them adulation throughout Europe even as they were despised as "monsters". For Tonio Treschi, the child of Venetian nobility, kidnapped and castrated in a murderous family conspiracy, only one thing would soothe his soul--revenge!

Cry to Heaven

✍ Rice, Anne 📂 Fiction 📅 1982;2010 🏛 Random House Publishing Group;Ballantine Books 🌐 English ⚖ 346 KB

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.

Cry to Heaven

✍ Anne Rice 📂 Fiction 📅 1982;2010 🏛 Ballantine Books 🌐 English ⚖ 355 KB

In this mesmerizing novel, the acclaimed author of THE VAMPIRE CHRONICLES and the LIVES OF THE MAYFAIR WITCHES makes real for us the exquisite and otherworldly society of the eighteenth-century castrati, the delicate and alluring male sopranos whose graceful bodies and glorious voices brought them t

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