Servant of the Bones [antikvár]

Born in New Orleans in 1941, the second daughter of an Irish Catholic family, Anne Rice is the author of the phenomenally successful Vampire Chronicles - Interuiew with the Vampire (a record breaking film starring Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt), The Vampire Lestat, The Queen ofthe Damned, The Tale of the Body Thief and Memnoch the Devil (available in Arrow paperback). She has alsó written ten other novels, including three books in the Mayfair Witches sequence - The. WitchingHour, Lasher and Táltos (alsó available in Arrow paperback). After many years in San Francisco, she now lives in her native New Orleans with her husband, the poet and university professor Stan Rice, and their son. Further praise for Servant of the Bones 'Rice's writing is wonderfully imaginative and as creepily splendid as a hot-house orchid' Sunday Times 'Her work has echoes of the freewheeling, fast-talking style of the eighteenth-century növel . .. lush, baroque prose . . . fantastical plots . . . Rice keeps her nerve and her triumphant sense of prose' Observer 'Another tale of destruction, sex and monsters - no-one does this better' Lancashire Evening Post 'Maintains your interest right to the end and beyond. .. She has always had a way with a story .. . there's no better woman to keep pages turning. . . as strange, and strangely compelling, as all her other books. Servant of the Bones has plenty of Rice hallmarks' Irish Times 'Rice at her descriptive best. .. Her imaginative energies are at their strongest' Kxrkus 'Plenty of Rice's trademarks' Guardian 'A real gift for rendering physically changed mood and melancholy atmosphere' New York Times Book Review