By Anne Rice
A bold new departure from the encouraged writer of The Vampire Chronicles (“unrelentingly erotic . . . unforgettable”—The Washington Post), Lives of the Mayfair Witches (“Anne Rice will continue to exist in the course of the a long time of literature”—San Francisco Chronicle), and the angels of The Songs of the Seraphim (“remarkable”—Associated Press). an entire new world—modern, modern, high-tech—and at its middle, a narrative as previous and compelling as historical past: the making of a werewolf, reimagined and reinvented as purely Anne Rice, teller of spell binding stories, conjurer extraordinaire of alternative nation-states, might create.
The time is the present.
The position, the rugged coast of Northern California. A bluff excessive above the Pacific. A grand mansion packed with attractiveness and tantalizing background set opposed to a towering redwood forest.
A younger reporter on task from the San Francisco Observer . . . An older lady welcoming him into her terrific family members domestic that he has been despatched to put in writing approximately and that she needs to promote with a few urgency . . . an opportunity stumble upon among not going humans . . . An idyllic night—shattered via bad unbelievable violence, the younger guy inexplicably attacked—bitten—by a beast he can't see within the rural darkness . . . A violent episode that units in movement a terrifying but seductive transformation, because the younger guy, stuck among ecstasy and horror, among embracing who he's evolving into and fearing what he'll develop into, quickly stories the fun of the wolf gift.
As he resists the paradoxical excitement and enthrallment of his wolfen savagery and delights within the strength and (surprising) skill for solid, he's stuck up in an odd and hazardous rescue and is desperately hunted as “the guy Wolf” by way of experts, the media, and scientists (evidence of DNA threatens to bare his twin life) . . . As a brand new and profound love enfolds him, questions emerge that propel him deeper into his mysterious new global: questions of why and the way he has been given this present; of its real nature and the curious yet enjoyable pull in the direction of goodness; of the profound consciousness that there is others like him who're watching—guardian creatures who've existed all through time who own old secrets and techniques and alchemical wisdom. And all through all of it, the quest for salvation for a soul laid low with a brand new realm of temptations, and the fraught, exhilarating trip, nonetheless to return, of being and turning into, totally, either wolf and guy.
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Charles and Blanche Fort spent richly on parties and their evenings out on the town; his father dressed in expensive clothes and hosted parties of Progressive Euchre, inviting Albany’s elite. “We knew They were prosperous. ” Instead, his parents decided to buy Charles a cheap brown suit with faint yellow stripes. ” It didn’t fit properly, with Charles’s chubby legs stretching the seams, and the brown dye rubbing off onto his hands. Within a few weeks, he had pushed through the seat of his trousers and found himself walking sideways in the classroom, keeping his back toward the blackboard.
Shocking, grotesque, evil, ridiculous, childish, insincere. . We ask only whether data and interpreta tions correlate. At the end of The Book of the Damned, the chapters grew shorter, the pace of the data quickened, and Fort indulged in fewer specula tions. It was as if the footfalls of his excluded facts overwhelmed even the author, drowning out his voice. Or perhaps the author no longer felt a need to organize and lead the parade; he was content to stand on the curb with his awestruck readers, indifferent, paring his fingernails.
We in prison and They turning the gas fixture so that we should be in darkness. A monkey wrench coming down the airshaft. Then sing ing to make the time hasten. Melancholy songs, we the unfortunate little boy. Then singing patriotic songs, half defiantly because of the noise we were making. ” Hearing our new mother, under the airshaft, laugh at this. Then we, too would laugh, for we could never be mean when others were not. 32 C H A R L E S F O RT • • • Raymond, the middle brother, was cloddishly well be haved and incurious about most things.
