In this confessional novel Anne Rice conjures up another seductive, dangerous and ambivalent ghost - one of the eternally undead whose restless spirit is caught between heaven and hell. The heroine narrator, Triana, is in her fifties, short, plumpish, with a pretty face and long dark hair; she's one of four sisters of a Catholic family; her alcoholic mother died when she was 14; her own daughter has died of leukemia. . . . Stefan, the Byronic violin playing ghost appears to her as she's grieving for the death from AIDS of her husband, takes her back to 19th century Vienna, where Beethoven was his teacher, and to the moment when he violently killed his own father and had to flee to Venice. Triana tricks him and takes his precious violin, and herself becomes an international virtuoso and superstar. But her fear is that when he lets her go and she has to give back the violin, she may never be able to play again. She incorporates painful and shocking memories of her mother's death, her daughter's death, the passionate, ambivalent relationships between four sisters, the unreal life of a wealthy superstar - all of which seems to come from Anne's own life - with a savage, glittering tale of violence and music in 19th century Vienna, and the shifting power struggle between Triana and Stefan, the genius in thrall to the (19970206)
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Enough to frighten even jaded readers. If anyone can make a haunted violin the object of obsession and nightmare, it's Rice (Publishers Weekly )
For nearly twenty years now, Anne Rice has been telling stories that share secrets - secrets of life and death, of sex and the soul, of monsters and humans (Rolling Stone )
For nearly twenty years now, Anne Rice has been telling stories that share secrets - secrets of life and death, of sex and the soul, of monsters and humans (Rolling Stone )
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Powerful, shocking, gloriously gothic and intensely autobiographical novel about a 20th century women in New Orleans who is haunted and inspired by a 19th century ghost. (19970206)
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Format:Mass Market Paperback
Triana's husband has just died and she is grief stricken, only music spares her sanity. In her grief, longing and lonliness she is visited by Stephan, the ghost of a Rusian aristcrat who plays a violin, and when he plays she losses herself.
She must resist him, keep hold of her will and resist his inivation to take her with him. Through there incounters she finds it harder and harder to keep up the fight and finds herself drawn into his terrible past.
You will be drawn in by this sensual tale of ghosts, the past, obsession and a woman's nightmarish struggle to keep her mind and will. Stephan is a sensual seductive caracter and at times you wonder why she tries to resist him.
An addictive highly enjoyable read which will leave you craving more.
By Lee Hanley
Format:Paperback
I am a fan of her books but this one didn't grab me from the beginning. Its very rare that it happens but I wasn't able to finish this book. I am sure there is some magic in here somewhere but I couldn't be bothered to wade through the misery to find it.
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As a music lover and a fan of all the pieces used throughout this book I felt all the emotion without hearing the music; the words are the music!
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