HE CAME before the day Karl died.
An edition of Violin
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Violin
1st Trade Edition
by Anne Rice
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In the grand manner of Interview with the 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 two charismatic figures bound to each other by a passionate commitment to music as a means of rapture, seduction, and liberation.
At the novel's center: a uniquely fascinating woman, Triana - who once dreamed 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 sets 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 propelled towards the novel's astonishing and unforgettable climax.
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Middle-aged women, Fiction, Violinists, Paranormal fiction, occult fiction, AIDS, Musicians, Ghost stories, New orleans (la.), fiction, Fiction, horror, Fiction, occult & supernatural, Musicians, fiction, Large type books, Louisiana, fictionPeople
Ludwig von Beethoven, Triana, Karl, Lev, Stefan, Niccolò PaganiniPlaces
New Orleans (La.), Vienna, New Orleans, Rio de JanieroShowing 9 featured editions. View all 21 editions?
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1999-09, Ballantine Books
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Violin
September 7, 1999, Ballantine Books
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Violin, released October 15, 1997, is Anne Rice's richly alluring new ghost novel that moves across the centuries to tell the story of three charismatic figures wrapped in music. A return to the romanticism of her first books, wild, passionate, tormented, operatic, Violin moves from nineteenth-century Vienna to modern New Orleans to Rio de Janiero telling the story of three unforgettable people. The first is an exquisite and vulnerable young woman who dreams of becoming a great musician. The second is a brilliantly talented and dangerously seductive violinist--a ghost--who uses his gifts, and his magic violin, to engage and dominate the emotions of his prey. The third who, in essence, is always present, is the spectre of Beethoven. The dramatic interplay of their ambitions, dreams, and desires are the stuff of an operatic tale full of passion and music. Fortissimo in feeling--a novel in the unique Anne Rice grand manner. Anne is flattered by the above, obviously she did not write this.
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| July 12, 2024 | Edited by MARC Bot | import existing book |
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