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First UK Edition, 1990. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Toning to the page margins.
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The acclaimed author of Servant of the Bones 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 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.
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I agree with Patrick. CRY TO HEAVEN is my favorite Anne Rice novel, next to MEMNOCH THE DEVIL. Anne Rice has a real gift for transporting her readers to a different time and place. As you read CRY TO HEAVEN, you lose yourself in all the grandeur of eighteenth century Italian life and the otherworldy society of the castrati.
I think I enjoyed this book because it told such a unique story. Before reading CRY TO HEAVEN, I knew nothing about castrati. Anne Rice takes you deep inside their world, showing you their pain at being shunned as "half-men" and their pleasure at being the adulation of the royal courts and grand opera houses of Europe.
-- Jennifer Richards
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Cry to Heaven
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First UK edition. The dustjacket shows with a couple of small nicks and is protected in a mylar cover. Seller Inventory # 039244
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Cry to Heaven
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Chatto & Windus, London, 1990, Hardcover, First U.K. Edition (originally published in the U.S. in 1982. Book condition: Near Fine: some light age toning to the pages, light bump at the spine base, otherwise close to fine/near new. Dust jacket condition: 3/8 inch closed tear at the spine top; light surface scratches on the rear; three inch (by 1/4 inch) line just behind the spine where the glassine cover has come away - still looks good and will look better with a removable, archival, mylar sleeve, which I will do - the jacket is about Near Fine minus and not price clipped - an attractive copy. Heavy item, may require additional postage. Seller Inventory # 000855
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Hard cover. This is a British edition, 1990. It was copyright by Anne Rice in 1982. This copy is signed, on the opposite of the front board. Thhis book is an other of the Chronicles of the Vampires. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 010557
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Hardcover, Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. SIGNED BY ANNE RICE on the front free end paper. First British edition, 1990, jacket protected with a Brodart mylar cover, minor age toning to pages common to this title. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 000160