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Original Title:	Cry to Heaven
ISBN:	0345396936 (ISBN13: 9780345396938)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Italy

Cry to Heaven Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 566 pages

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Title	:	Cry to Heaven
Author	:	Anne Rice
Book Format	:	Mass Market Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 566 pages
Published	:	April 1st 1995 by Ballantine Books (first published 1982)
Categories	:	Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Horror. Fantasy

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Anne Rice brings to life the exquisite and otherworldly society of the eighteenth-century castrati, the delicate and alluring male sopranos whose graceful bodies and glorious voices brought them the adulation of the royal courts and grand opera houses of Europe, men who lived as idols, concealing their pain as they were adored as angels, yet shunned as half-men. As we are drawn into their dark and luminous story, as the crowds of Venetians, Neopolitans, and Romans, noblemen and peasants, musicians, prelates, princes, saints, and intriguers swirl around them, Anne Rice brings us into the sweep of eighteenth-century Italian life, into the decadence beneath the shimmering surface of Venice, the wild frivolity of Naples, and the magnetic terror of its shadow, Vesuvius.

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Re-read as a buddy read with my dear friend Giulia.On the whole, on my second reading, I liked it better than the first time... more things were clearer to me and we definitely took our time savouring the characters and the story. That doesn't go for the section about Christina, though-- I felt it was rushed, out of place and not quite fitting... I could have done without it, honestly, and especially without Tonio's... propensity to forget, even temporarily, old loves and lovers when he got a



A book for music lovers. Truly IMHO the best book Ann Rice has ever written. She gives the reader intimate details of the life of a castrati. A life most of us could never grasp of living. She makes you feel the joys and pains of this life. Deeply moving and thoughtful read.

Read sometimes for the story . . . Don't be like the book snobs who won't do that. Read sometimes for the words - the language. Don't be like the play-it-safers that won't do that. But when you find a book that has both a good story and good words, treasure that book. Stephen King I came across the above quote on another author's page. When I read it, it struck me immediately that it summed up my experience with latest book I'd read. It has been a long time since I've read a book that affected

Cry to Heaven was the second Anne Rice novel I ever read. The subject matter is intense (sometimes graphic) from PAGE ONE; yet too fascinating to put down! What I did NOT now until way after the fact, is Anne's work in this well written book is historically correct and highly researched. Among other things, Cry to Heaven is a story of life-long revenge! It's steeped in rich historicity of 18th Century Opera, the Church, the history of the "Castrati" -- and some other sexuality explicit, yet

The blurb on the back of the book:IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ITALY THE CASTRATI RECREATED HEAVEN ON EARTH.Their exquisite voices soured above the glittering world of courtiers and nobility. Those who achieved fame were showered with riches and sexual favours. But their success also had a terrible sadness.TONIO, of noble birth, is the victim of a vengeful brother. Disinherited and forced to join the ranks of the castrati, he plans his revenge while striving to become the greatest of all singers.GUIDO,

Tonio Treschi is a growing boy, the heir a small but noble Venetian family, and he has the singing voice of an angel. Guido Maffeo is a grown castrato who lost his singing voice in adolescence and now teaches young castrati and composes music. When Tonio is castrated at the order of a jealous and vengeful relative, he is forced into Guido's care and banished from Venice. Guido takes him to the school for castrati where he himself was taught, and endeavors to train Tonio's voice and make him into