Taltos

Zusatztext “ Taltos  is the third book in a series known as the lives of the Mayfair witches. . .Their haunted heritage has brought the family great wealth! which is exercised from a New Orleans manse with Southern gentility; but of course such power cannot escape notice . . . or challenge . . . Rice is a formidable talent. . . . [ Taltos ]is a curious amalgam of gothic! glamour fiction! alternate history! and high soap opera.” — The Washington Post Book World “Anne Rice will live on through the ages of literature.” — San Francisco Chronicle “An intricate! stunning imagination.” — Los Angeles Times Book Review “Spellbinding . . . mythical . . . Anne Rice is a pure storyteller.” — Cosmopolitan “Beautifully written.” — Kirkus Reivews  (starred review) “Her power of invention seems boundless. . . . She has made a masterpiece of the morbid! worthy of Poe's daughter. . . . It is hard to praise sufficiently the originality of Miss Rice.” — The Wall Street Journal Informationen zum Autor Anne Rice Klappentext When Ashlar learns that another Taltos has been seen, he is suddenly propelled into the haunting world of the Mayfair family, the New Orleans dynasty of witches forever besieged by ghosts, spirits, and their own dizzying powers. For Ashlar knows this powerful clan is intimately linked to the heritage of the Taltos. In a swirling universe filled with death and life, corruption and innocence, this mesmerizing novel takes us on a wondrous journey back through the centuries to a civilization half-human, of wholly mysterious origin, at odds with mortality and immortality, justice and guilt. It is an enchanted, hypnotic world that could only come from the imagination of Anne Rice . . . Praise for Taltos "Taltos is the third book in a series known as the lives of the Mayfair witches. . .Their haunted heritage has brought the family great wealth, which is exercised from a New Orleans manse with Southern gentility; but of course such power cannot escape notice . . . or challenge . . . Rice is a formidable talent. . . . [Taltos]is a curious amalgam of gothic, glamour fiction, alternate history, and high soap opera."-The Washington Post Book World "Anne Rice will live on through the ages of literature."-San Francisco Chronicle "An intricate, stunning imagination."-Los Angeles Times Book Review "Spellbinding . . . mythical . . . Anne Rice is a pure storyteller."-Cosmopolitan "Beautifully written."-Kirkus Reivews (starred review) "Her power of invention seems boundless. . . . She has made a masterpiece of the morbid, worthy of Poe's daughter. . . . It is hard to praise sufficiently the originality of Miss Rice."-The Wall Street Journal Leseprobe One   It had snowed all day. As the darkness fell, very close and quickly, he stood at the window looking down on the tiny figures in Central Park. A perfect circle of light fell on the snow beneath each lamp. Skaters moved on the frozen lake, though he could not make them out in detail. And cars pushed sluggishly over the dark roads.   To his right and his left, the skyscrapers of midtown crowded near him. But nothing came between him and the park, except, that is, for a jungle of lower buildings, rooftops with gardens, and great black hulking pieces of equipment, and sometimes even pointed roofs.   He loved this view; it always surprised him when others found it so unusual, when a workman coming to fix an office machine would volunteer that he’d never seen New York like this before. Sad that there was no marble tower for everyone; that there was no series of towers, to which all the people could go, to look out at varying heights.   Make a note: Build a series of towers which have no function except to be parks in the sky for the people. Use al...

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Taltos is the third book in a series known as the lives of the Mayfair witches. . .Their haunted heritage has brought the family great wealth, which is exercised from a New Orleans manse with Southern gentility; but of course such power cannot escape notice . . . or challenge . . . Rice is a formidable talent. . . . [Taltos]is a curious amalgam of gothic, glamour fiction, alternate history, and high soap opera. The Washington Post Book World

Anne Rice will live on through the ages of literature. San Francisco Chronicle

An intricate, stunning imagination. Los Angeles Times Book Review

Spellbinding . . . mythical . . . Anne Rice is a pure storyteller. Cosmopolitan

Beautifully written. Kirkus Reivews (starred review)

Her power of invention seems boundless. . . . She has made a masterpiece of the morbid, worthy of Poe's daughter. . . . It is hard to praise sufficiently the originality of Miss Rice. The Wall Street Journal

Product details

• Authors: Anne Rice
• Publisher: Ballantine
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.1996
• EAN: 9780345404312
• ISBN: 978-0-345-40431-2
• No. of pages: 576
• Dimensions: 107 mm x 174 mm x 31 mm
• Series: Lives of Mayfair Witches; Lives of Mayfair Witches
• Subject: Fiction > Suspense > Crime fiction, thrillers, espionage