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In the grand manner of INTERVIEW WITH A VAMPIRE, Anne Rice's new novel moves across time and the continents, from nineteenth-century Vienna to a St. Charles Greek Revival mansion in present-day New orleans to the dazzling capitals of the modern-day world, telling a story of twwo charismatic figures bound to each other by a passionate committment to music as a means of rapture, seduction, and liberation.
At the novel's center: a uniquely fascinating woman, Triana-who once ddreamed of becoming a great musician-and the demonic fiddler Stefan, tormented ghost of a Russian aristocrat, who begins to prey upon her, using his magic violin first to enchant, then to dominate and draw her into a state of madness through the music she loves.
But Triana understands the power of the music perhaps even more than does Stefan-and she setd out to resist Stefan and to fight not only for her sanity but for her life. The struggle draws them both into a terrifying supernatural realm where they find themselves surrounded by memories, by horrors, and by overwhelming truths. Battling desperately, they are at last propeled towards the novels' astonishing and unforgettable climax.
At the novel's center: a uniquely fascinating woman, Triana-who once ddreamed of becoming a great musician-and the demonic fiddler Stefan, tormented ghost of a Russian aristocrat, who begins to prey upon her, using his magic violin first to enchant, then to dominate and draw her into a state of madness through the music she loves.
But Triana understands the power of the music perhaps even more than does Stefan-and she setd out to resist Stefan and to fight not only for her sanity but for her life. The struggle draws them both into a terrifying supernatural realm where they find themselves surrounded by memories, by horrors, and by overwhelming truths. Battling desperately, they are at last propeled towards the novels' astonishing and unforgettable climax.
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