Taltos : Lives of the Mayfair Witches

Anne Rice

ISBN 10: 0099436817 / ISBN 13: 9780099436812

Published by Arrow/Children's (a Division o, 1995

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Taltos : Lives of the Mayfair Witches
• Publisher: Arrow/Children's (a Division o
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0099436817
• ISBN 13: 9780099436812
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

SOON TO BE A MAJOR TV SHOW, FROM THE NETWORK BEHIND THE WALKING DEAD

''[W]hen I found Rice''s work I absolutely loved how she took that genre and (...) made [it] feel so contemporary and relevant'' Sarah Pinborough, bestselling author of Behind Her Eyes

''[Rice wrote] in the great tradition of the gothic'' Ramsey Campbell, bestselling author of The Hungry Moon

The Mayfair Witches face an unimaginable new threat: the Taltos - the giant race gifted with preternatural knowledge, who breed in minutes and live for centuries. The race that spawned the monster-innocent Lasher, who gave the witches their power and almost destroyed them.

Unknown to the Mayfairs, another Taltos still lives: the legendary Ashla, who has done and suffered so much down the centuries. Now a frantic dance speeds them all from the dawn of history and the Dark Ages to high-tech New York, from sensuous New Orleans to Stonehenge and the Scottish Highlands, towards their ultimate fate...

Review

In a swirling universe filled with death and life, corruption and innocence, this mesmerizing novel takes us on a wondrous journey back through the centuries to a civilization half-human, of wholly mysterious origin, at odds with mortality and immortality, justice and guilt. It is an enchanted, hypnotic world that could only come from the imagination of Anne Rice...