With that success, she began writing sequels to that novel in the 1980's. She was very successful coming right out with her first novel.Interview with the Vampire. Rice was raised in a Catholic family, but chose to be an agnostic as a young adult. Somehow, being born in New Orleans seems fitting for an author most famous for her popular series of novels entitled, The Vampire Chronicles. She was born Howard Allen Frances O'Brian in 1941 in New Orleans. It seems pretty ironic for an author to change from Gothic fiction, erotica, then to Christian literature, but American author, Anne Rice did just that. “Rice is eerily good at making the impossible seem self-evident.”-Time

you have surrendered to enchantment, as in a voluptuous dream.”-The Boston Globe “To read Anne Rice is to become giddy as if spinnning through the mind of time.”-San Francisco Chronicle 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 These men are revered as idols-and, at the same time, scorned for all they are not. 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. 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.

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