- Paperback: 576 pages
- Publisher: Chatto and Windus; paperback / softback edition (1997)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0701165758
- ISBN-13: 978-0701165758
- Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 5,746,296 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Set in New Orleans before the Civil War, this is the story of the "Free People of Colour", descended from slaves and their French and Spanish owners. Among them is Marcel, an artist in the making, his gentle sister Marie and Anna Bella, a beautiful young courtesan.
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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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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
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.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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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.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
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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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The Feast of All Saints
I have finally gotten around to reading this book by Anne Rice after having it on my shelf for a few years! Read more
Published 12 months ago by Kristie Macknight
what a pity
This book has an author of obvious talent, interesting characters and fascinating little-known history, and yet it fails. Read more
Published 13 months ago by rob crawford
a BIG shame
All i can really say about this book is that i was really disappointed. i did not expected it to be written in the same way as her previous books however i did expect it to be... Read more
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