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The Feast of All Saints [Hardcover]

Anne Rice (Author)
3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)

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Publication Date: Jan 1980
Before the Civil War, there lived in Louisiana, people unique in Southern history. For though they were descended from African slaves, they were also descended from the French and Spanish who enslaved them. In this dazzling historical novel, Anne Rice chronicles four of these so-called Free People of Color--men and women caught periolously between the worlds of master and slave, privilege and oppression, passion and pain.
"Anne Rice seems to be at home everywhere....She makes us believe everything she sees."
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  • Hardcover: 571 pages
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster (Jan 1980)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0671247557
  • ISBN-13: 978-0671247553
  • Product Dimensions: 20.8 x 14.2 x 4.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,673,370 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Enthralling, sensual and exotic - Anne Rice's answer to Gone with the Wind, her ante-Bellum novel set in the colourful and violent city of N ew Orleans in the nineteenth century (19970522) --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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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 beginning with Interview with the Vampire. She has also written twenty-one other novels, including three books in the Mayfair Witches sequence. 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. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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ONE MORNING in New Orleans, in that part of the Rue Ste. Anne before it crosses Conde and becomes the lower boundary of the Place d'Armes, a young boy who had been running full tilt down the middle of the street stopped suddenly, his chest heaving, and began to deliberately and obviously follow a tall woman. Read the first page
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33 of 36 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars In my opinion, one Anne Rice's best books 5 Sep 2000
By Alice Mogens
Format:Paperback
I found this book years ago, in an out of the way bookstore in Norway, long before I'd ever heard of any of Anne Rice's vampire books. Her style of writing, her character and place descriptions, and the thrilling and surprising twists in the plot, had me turning pages and being drawn into this dark, steamy, imaginary world throughout my summer vacation that year. It also gives a brilliant historic description of New Orleans at that time.

I still value it as one of my favorite books. I started reading the vampire books, but found them completely different from that first encounter with the author - as if they were written by a different person.

This is a beautifully written mystery, love story, historical novel - it has just about everything.

If given a choice of 10 books to take with me on a desert island, "The Feast of All Saints" would be among the top five.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Anne Rice's best book 30 Sep 2005
By Zarazilla
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
It is one of her earlier books, and lacking the usual Anne Rice supernaturalism, but also, imho, her best book. It soaks up the atmosphere of a long lost (sadly even now moreso) New Orleans with a bit of a history lesson for those unversed with that uncertain time when slavery was still going on, but the most interesting history lesson I've ever had! You get drawn into the book and it's unlikely beautiful characters. It is a book about growth and compassion and the good and bad sides of people. I highly recommend it.
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars wow 21 Feb 2004
By A Customer
Format:Paperback
This is Anne Rice at her exquisite best, before she drained herself dry churning out bestsellers. The characterisation is superb, the interaction between them is subtle and poignant. She shows such amazing talent for atmospheric writing, it is painful to think how bad she has become: perhaps the biggest literary disappointment of all time!

I still hold out hope that she will stop writing about supernaturalism and go back to what she does best - novel's like this, which ground her obessesions in reality.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A Sumptuous Feast 9 Aug 2012
By JFD
Format:Paperback
The Feast of All Saints is a sumptuous book, full of rich descriptions that manage to capture the mood of New Orleans in the 1840s when viewed from the perspective of Marcel, a young boy of colour with a white plantation-owner father who kept Marcel's coloured mother as a mistress and his two children by her as a separate family from his white family at home. The evocative nature of the writing is the real success in this book and as the reader you feel you can imagine the oppressive heat of the young city. The French mood of the city is evident throughout and particularly well captured in the characterization of the various players in the book. It is a book that will draw you in and reward you for your perseverance, leaving you with a feeling that you knew more about New Orleans and the development of the American South than you did before you started.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Alter your expectations. 27 July 2012
By Mrs. D. L. Cox
Format:Paperback
If you are looking for a book with a clearly emphasised plot-this is not the book for you.

This is a book which explores events surrounding the people of a place and time. It explores the co-existence of people of varying degrees of coloured skin and how a wavering balance is struck between slave, dark coloured,coloured but passes as white and white. And it's not at all clear.
It's an absurd system and the book shows this in a powerful way. Rather than tell us what we should think and who we should support or feel sorry for, Rice puts several very well developed characters in front of us and allows us to judge for ourselves.
I'll admit that the book took me a while to get in to. Mostly because of the lack of obvious strong plot. But events nearer the end revealed to me that somewhere along my journey I had formed an attachment and affection for several key characters.

In this book I found aspects of human nature laid bare and learned something about myself. This is a wonderful function of any book.

Aside from this..Rice has a way of describing people, places and music so that you really feel like you are there. I feel I know these people and their homes very well.

I do however question the blurb on the book saying this is gothic. In no way did I find this. Not in the sense of supernatural-though there is a small suggestion of voodoo. Nor gothic in the sense of domestic dangers for women-although these women are faced with unique marital pressures.

If you have avoided Rice's vampire books or witch books I would say that you may be missing out if you walk on by.

If you liked...... Read more ›
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3.0 out of 5 stars The Feast of All Saints 21 May 2011
By Kristie Macknight
Format:Paperback
I have finally gotten around to reading this book by Anne Rice after having it on my shelf for a few years! As a fan of her early vampire fiction, I wasn't sure what to expect - as personally I feel that her quality of writing has deteriorated over time - for me, the later vampire novels lack a certain something that was present in the first three. This book was published in the 1980's I believe - so I was hoping it would be as good as Cry to Heaven or Interview with the vampire.

The story centres on Marcel, a young man of colour growing up in New Orleans before the civil war. As an offspring of the system of placage (where a wealthy white man kept a coloured mistress and their children as a separate family away from his recognised white family)Marcel belongs neither to the community of wealthy white plantation owners, or the that of the black slaves. He dreams of travelling to Paris and finding freedom from the restrictions of his life and community. Intertwined with his fate is that of his immediate family and friends.

The author paints a vivid and lush portrait of historical New Orleans in her typically purple prose. All is wondrous, exotic and sumptuous - from the china plate on the table to the silk dresses. And, for me - herein lies the problem - the pain, cruelty and degradation of the slave trade is glossed over somewhat. Although I understand that the characters would have different views from our modern stance, and the novel itself is not about slavery as such, it was an integral part of that society and therefore I expected perhaps a little more focus on that issue. The biggest problem for me however with this book was the real lack of action.... Read more ›
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