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

Cry to Heaven

Anne Rice

Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 566 pages

Rating: 3.85 | 19243 Users | 662 Reviews

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

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I don't even have words to begin to describe the sorrow and poignancy of "Cry to Heaven". The novel's protagonist is Tonio, who is unwillingly castrated in a series of events riddled with deceit and betrayal. Enraged and tormented, at first Tonio refuses his fate, but as the novel progresses he is slowly transformed into an ultimately triumphant figure. Lush, sensual prose and an ending that will hold you by the throat, this is a book that will stay with you long, long after it is read.

Ho hum. I read this book because I like historical fiction and opera, so I thought it would be right up my alley. I was wrong. In reading this book, I was reminded of why I did not make it far in trying to read any of The Vampire Chronicles. Characters are one-dimensional and unsympathetic, prose is corny, and the book is way too long. The main character, Tonio, goes through a horrific ordeal that truly changes the trajectory of his life, so I should be sympathetic, but I wasn't. I am no prude,



One of the most boring books I've ever read. It's a dreadful soap opera about sex and revenge, involving a bunch of dull, melodramatic assholes. Most of it is completely predictable, and while you're waiting for the obvious to happen, you have to trudge through chapter after chapter of angsty whining in infuriatingly purple prose. Anne Rice offers no twists, no surprises. There is plenty of sex, which might have been fun if Rice didn't describe it all in ridiculous euphemisms or equate rough sex

A sensual tale of revenge. I wanted to read a book set in Venice and I remembered I enjoyed this novel many years ago. This book recreates Italy (Venice ambience is done beautifully, but also Naples and Rome) in the 18th century really well, the historical aspects are spot on, the costumes, the music and visual arts, the places, the atmosphere all vividly described. Theres a lot more sex than I remembered, a lot of drama (fit for the Opera, hehe) but it should have been edited to a shorter

I found "Cry to Heaven" to be as rich, baroque and sensual as the previous works, I've read, by Anne Rice. [The Mayfair witch series] A young boy was brutally castrated because of a struggle for power in a Venetian household of the 18th century. After a life-time of study and vocal training, he eventually becomes a star of the opera in Rome. The public is entranced by his remarkable voice and stunning good looks. He can play both male and female roles with authenticity, and is larger than life

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