About this title: Increasingly as popular as her legendary vampires, Anne Rice's Mayfair witches return in the paperback edition of the bestselling sequel to The Witching Hour. Around the globe, through time and between the worlds, the beautiful coven queen Rowan Mayfair flees the evil spell of the darkly compelling Lasher.
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Edition: third printing before publication (before first sale)
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780679412953ISBN:0679412956
Description: Very good in fair dust jacket. DJ has tear from front top left corner to the H in Lasher. also 2 in tear down front right side. otherwise shiny and intact. Book is in near fine condition. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 592 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Knopf, New York
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780679412953ISBN:0679412956
Description: Fine. First Edition as stated with date. Fine copy with Very Good+ DJ with bumping to top of spine and creasing of lower front cover with slight 1/4 tear to lower front corner and light rubbing.. read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9780345397812ISBN:0345397819
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 640 p. Lives of the Mayfair Witches. Audience: General/trade. Overall very good conditions. Some creasing and shelf wear. Inside stamp from another seller. Cover different from display. read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9780345397812ISBN:0345397819
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 640 p. Lives of the Mayfair Witches. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9780345397812ISBN:0345397819
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Light edge and corner wear. Cover creased. Small repaired tear in spine. No marks. Tight binding. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 640 p. Lives of the Mayfair Witches. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9780345397812ISBN:0345397819
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Very light edge and corner wear. No marks. Tight binding. Some damage to front cover from sticker removal. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 640 p. Lives of the Mayfair Witches. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Date Published: 1994
ISBN-13:9780345377647ISBN:0345377648
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 592 p. Lives of the Mayfair Witches. Audience: General/trade. read more
Edition: Book Club Edition.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Knopf
Date Published: 1993
Description: Good in fair dust jacket. Nice hard cover, lightly read, some wear & tear to dust jacket, small pink marks on side edge, stk #2482n8. 577 p. read more
Edition: First Thus
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Ballantine Books, New York
Date Published: 1994
ISBN-13:9780345377647ISBN:0345377648
Description: Good. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Bookstore price tag on back cover. Edge wear, slight soiling. No writing, marks or tears in text. 577 pages. Lives of the Mayfair Witches Series. read more
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Ballantine Books, New York
Date Published: 1994
ISBN-13:9780345377647ISBN:0345377648
Description: Good. No Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. The book is very solid with lightly browned pages. The back has a book store sticker. The cover has very little shelf & edge wear. read more
Description: Very Good. 0679412956 1993 Knopf; BCE; HC; Cover: shelf & edge wears, few small edge tears, o/w great condition; Fore-edge: minor age grime/tanning; Content: few dog-eared pages, o/w clean, tight & unmarked; Ships Quick. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Date Published: 1994
ISBN-13:9780345377647ISBN:0345377648
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. PB, FIRST BALLENTINE BKS EDITION 1994, A VERY GOOD, CLEAN USED COPY, NO MARKS ON TEXT. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 592 p. Lives of the Mayfair Witches. Audience: General/trade. read more
"Boy was this a letdown after reading The Witching Hour. It was really long and drawn out. I felt like the entire book was just two very long rehashings of the first story with a couple of blanks filled in. It was almost like re-reading the first book and became quite tedious at times. I guess it was important to develop the character of Lasher, but I think it could have been done effectively by just adding another chapter or two to the already long first book. I haven't read the Queen of the Damned yet, but my feeling was that this book was the filler book until she could come up with a plot for the third book. I liked hearing Lasher's story, Julien's story could have been pared down alot. Way too much repetition from the first book. I'm also a bit disturbed by Anne Rice's apparent obsession with kinky and illegal sex (with minors) It's an obvious theme in both books so far and would make me wary of leaving my children alone with her. I don't think it is necessary to write about sexual encounters with children - I don't care if they are witches. It didn't add anything to the story. I think I would have been more impressed if Lasher treated them with kindness as children therefore encouraging loyalty. That part was a little too sordid for me. I'm going to give it a break for a while before I read the last book."
"Great choice, after reading this book, you won't settle (not saying you do) very romantic,no matter how young you feel, ...I have read most of Ann Rice's books, in my opinion this is one of her best. Enjoy.. and thanks, ;-)"
"So stunningly bad is the first third of this book that only the lunatic and the true devotee are likely to get beyond it. It is actually a riot of Rice's worst sins: strained and wooden characterizations, the abandonment of plot for the sake of a tangled and murky history, and a sort of mutant prose stumbling between a modern person's idea of old-fashioned elegance and an old-fashioned person's idea of how people actually talk in the 1990s. Part of the purpose of this 200-page cancer is to make the transition from the novel's progenitor, The Witching Hour (1990), but this could have been accomplished in 10 or 15 pages. Well, let's say you made it through. What you get now is the best of Rice: a deliciously perverse image of an infant, Lasher, who grows to sexual maturity within days of his birth and immediately starts copulating with his mother even while she swoons with the pleasure of his suckling. Of course, it's always nice to read about sex, and Rice's romantic imagination doesn't let her down: Lasher is dark, handsome, sadistic, childlike, and tender. His mother cannot resist him even after she has twice miscarried in the space of three months. But Rice cannot quite bring home the promising story of Lasher's desire to repopulate the earth with his own kind, and the story limps to an unsatisfying conclusion. By the end, then, we've had a bit of everything: the good, the bad, and the truly ugly. Indeed, without her reputation, Rice would never have found a publisher for this wretched mess. ***Rate this 3 out of 5 by comparing it to The Witching Hour. Too much in depth on backgrounds of the characters, including Lasher. However, I will continue to read her books as they are so well-written and entertaining."
"Sous le porche dune vieille demeure à l'abandon de La Nouvelle-Orléans, une femme frêle et muette se balance dans un rocking-chair : Deirdre Mayfair est devenue folle depuis qu'on lui a retiré, à la naissance, sa fille Rowan pour l'envoyer vivre à San Francisco.
Et derrière la grille du jardin, un homme, Aaron Lighter, surveille inlassablement Deirdre, comme d'autres avant lui, pendant des siècles, ont secrètement surveillé la famille Mayfair.
Car ils savent que, de génération en génération, les femmes du clan se transmettent leurs maléfiques pouvoirs et que la terrifiante et fabuleuse histoire de cette lignée de sorcières ne fait que commencer..."
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