About this title: The Mayfair family is heir to the awesome gift--or curse--of witchery. Knowledge of the legacy was withheld from neurosurgeon Rowan Mayfair until the power passed to her on the death of a relative. With this power comes the attention of the demon Lasher, who now wants to enter the mortal world forever through one of his human conduits.
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Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780345384461ISBN:0345384466
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 1056 p. Lives of the Mayfair Witches. Audience: General/trade. read more
Edition: First edition.
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780345367891ISBN:0345367898
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 976 p. Lives of the Mayfair Witches. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Ballantine Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780345367891ISBN:0345367898
Description: Good. No Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. The book is very solid with lightly browned pages. The cover has minor shelf & edge wear. read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780345384461ISBN:0345384466
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Light edge wear. A corner crease. No marks. Tight binding. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 1056 p. Lives of the Mayfair Witches. Audience: General/trade. "A wonderfully Gothic writer whose talents far outshine those of Stephen King and others in the field. "--The Boston Guide. Author of "Interview with a Vampire" read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780345384461ISBN:0345384466
Description: Good in good dust jacket. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 1056 p. Lives of the Mayfair Witches. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780345384461ISBN:0345384466
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Book has clean pgs, book shows shelf, edge & corner wear with light creases at spine, pgs 975-984 have upper corners bent. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 1056 p. Lives of the Mayfair Witches. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780345384461ISBN:0345384466
Description: Acceptable. Overall below average used book. May have highlighting, underlining, notes, price sticker on cover, or be an ex-library book. read more
"We watch and we are always here'' is the motto of the Talamasca, a saintly group with extrasensory powers which has for centuries chronicled the lives of the Mayfairs--a dynasty of witches that brought down a shower of flames in 17th-century Scotland, fled to the plantations of Haiti and on to the New World, where they settled in the haunted city of New Orleans. Rice ( The Queen of the Damned ) plumbs a rich vein of witchcraft lore, conjuring in her overheated, florid prose the decayed antebellum mansion where incest rules, dolls are made of human bone and hair, and violent storms sweep the skies each time a witch dies and the power passes on. Newly annointed is Rowan Mayfair, a brilliant California neurosurgeon kept in ignorance of her heritage by her adoptive parents. She returns to the fold after bringing back Michael Curry from the dead; he, too, has unwanted extrasensory gifts and, like Rowan and the 12 Mayfairs before her, has beheld Lasher: devil, seducer, spirit. Now Lasher wants to come through to this world forever and Rowan is the Mayfair who can open the door. This massive tome repeatedly slows, then speeds when Rice casts off the Talamasca's pretentious, scholarly tones and goes for the jugular with morbid delights, sexually charged passages and wicked, wild tragedy. *****Rate this 5/5 and would score higher! I loved this book! Even though it was almost a thousand pages, it captures you at the first page and doesn't let go."
"Anne Rice is quite the interesting lady. Sometimes the book was a bit much for me, but she does a fantastic job of making you feel like you are really there and a part of what she is developing."
"My favorite Anne Rice book of all time, anyone who reads this book will fall in love with New Orleans and Anne's writing. Not a vampire book, and I do love her vampires, but this is the best."
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