Cry to Heaven by Anne Rice [XL TRADE PAPERBACK] 1991 • Ballantine

Cry to Heaven Anne Rice 

TRADE PAPERBACK [1991] BALLANTINE BOOKS

XL trade paperback in very good condition. 

Cover has some general shelf wear.  Overall, clean, tight and reads perfectly with a hint of tanning to pages. 

Anne Rice brings to life 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 of the royal courts and grand opera houses of Europe, men who lived as idols, concealing their pain as they were adored as angels, yet shunned as half-men.

As we are drawn into their dark and luminous story, as the crowds of Venetians, Neopolitans, and Romans, noblemen and peasants, musicians, prelates, princes, saints, and intriguers swirl around them, Anne Rice brings us into the sweep of eighteenth-century Italian life, into the decadence beneath the shimmering surface of Venice, the wild frivolity of Naples, and the magnetic terror of its shadow, Vesuvius.