Anne Rice writing as Anne Rampling -- First Edition First Printing -- 1986 -- DJ

Anne Rice writing as Anne Rampling

ISBN 10: 0877958262 / ISBN 13: 9780877958260

Published by Arbor House, New York, 1986

About this Item

First edition, first printing. Hardcover in original dust jacket.

EDITION: First Edition, First Printing. Number line on copyright page reads 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. Copyright 1986 by Anne Rice writing as Anne Rampling.

PUBLISHER: Arbor House, New York, 1986

CONDITION:
Dust Jacket: Very Good. Mel Odom illustration vivid and bright. Price unclipped at $17.95 on front flap. Light toning to flap edges. Light shelf wear to rear panel.

Book: Very Good. Burgundy cloth boards clean and solid. Light blue-green ink mark to top page edge. Small initials in ink on half-title page. Previous owner name "Michelle S.C. Barrett" in ink on front free endpaper. Pages lightly tanned. Binding tight and square.

Laid in: Original Borders Book Shop promotional bookmark, Ann Arbor, Michigan.

By 1986 Anne Rice had already transformed vampire fiction with Interview with the Vampire and The Vampire Lestat. Belinda was the second novel she published under the pen name Anne Rampling, a separate creative identity she used for contemporary erotic fiction outside the supernatural. The Mel Odom cover illustration, with its pale Pre-Raphaelite face dissolving into roses, became one of the most recognizable images in 1980s literary paperback design. Rice later said this was among her favorite of her own novels.

Shipped with care via USPS Media Mail with tracking.

Seller Inventory # SSB-0061

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Anne Rice writing as Anne Rampling -- First Edition First Printing -- 1986 -- DJ
• Publisher: Arbor House, New York
• Publication Date: 1986
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0877958262
• ISBN 13: 9780877958260
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

About this title

Synopsis

Obsessed with the mystery surrounding Belinda, his precocious sixteen-year-old lover, Jeremy Walker, a middle-aged illustrator of children's books, is swept into Belinda's world of Hollywood money, lust, and dark family secrets

Reviews

Under the pseudonym of Rampling, Anne Rice (The Vampire Lestat wrote the erotic confection Exit to Eden ; this novel, too, has a highly sensual aura. Jeremy Walker, a middle-aged children's book author renowned for his beautiful, old-fashioned illustrations, is captivated by a 16-year-old woman-child who tells him nothing of her past when she moves into his San Francisco home. Obsessed by Belinda's smoky sexuality, the paintings in which he celebrates her beauty are an erotic and sometimes violent extension of Jeremy's books. When the artist discovers that his mysterious lover is the missing daughter of a famed film star, a scandalous story of anger and betrayal uncoils, and Belinda abruptly disappears. To bring her back, Jeremy makes his portraits public, unleashing a media circus and police investigation that conspire to separate them forever. The concluding chapters are badly marred by a heavy dose of saccharine, but its rivetingly seductive, gothic overtones lend a fine, eerie flavor to scenes stretching from brash Hollywood deals to the darkness of an enshrined house in New Orleans. Major ad/promo.
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When 44-year-old Jeremy Walker beds luscious 16-year-old runaway Belinda, he risks more than legal charges. For Walker is a children's author of such repute that his booksall about little girlsmake adult bestseller lists and spawn TV series and movies. Belinda, experienced beyond her years, satisfies his occasional yen for young girls and more, as his lover, model, and muse; his paintings of her are the best he's done. But keeping this work, and their relationship, hidden is complicated by Belinda's intimate ties (obvious early on) to top show biz figures. In this novel written under a pseudonym by Anne Rice ( The Vampire Lestat ), Walker's first-person narrative is erotic and strong with bursts of artistic passion, but it's bogged down with detailed background exposition and resolution. And art and truth, as moral issues, take a back seat to eroticism. Michele Leber, Fairfax Cty. P.L., Va.
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