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VIOLIN by Anne Rice - SIGNED FIRST EDITION BOOKSee all titles by Anne Rice.
In the grand manner of Interview with the Vampire, Violin moves across time and the continents, from nineteenth-century Vienna to a St. Charles Greek Revival mansion in present-day New Orleans to 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. Recurrent memories of past tragedies conjure up a violin-playing ghost
in Rice's tortured tale of love and
grief. Narrator Triana has long accused herself of complicity in the
deaths of her alcoholic mother and cancer-ridden daughter, but when her
husband dies, too, an angry ghost comes to compound her guilt.
In life,
a 19th-century Viennese aristocrat who studied the violin with
Beethoven, Stefan Stefanovsky torments Triana with her lack of talent,
then transports her into his own past, where she witnesses his death
and hears performances by Beethoven and Paganini. Returning to the
present, Triana makes a pilgrimage to Brazil where she believes her
daughter may be reincarnated.
Although Rice tends to group her novels
into series, this ghost story bears little relationship to last year's
Servant of the Bones. Its themes are darker, its ghost more seductive
and its events clearly more personal. With so many parallels between
the novel's details and what Rice has revealed of her own lifefrom her
battles with weight to her Brazilian odyssey one almost wonders whether
Rice has seen something like the apparition that her heroine describes.
However much of the tale is pure invention, a new lyricism in keeping
with the music that mocks and ultimately consoles her for her
mortality brings Triana's strong, textured voice almost audibly to life.
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