Cry to Heaven

Anne Rice

Jul 2000 · Penguin Random House Audio · Narrated by Tim Curry

About this audiobook

In a sweeping saga of music and vengeance, the acclaimed author of The Vampire Chronicles draws readers into eighteenth-century Italy, bringing to life the decadence beneath the shimmering surface of Venice, the wild frivolity of Naples, and the magnetic terror of its shadow, Vesuvius. This is the story of the castrati, the exquisite and otherworldly sopranos whose graceful bodies and glorious voices win the adulation of royal courts and grand opera houses throughout Europe. These men are revered as idols—and, at the same time, scorned for all they are not.
 
Praise for Anne Rice and Cry to Heaven
 
“Daring and imaginative . . . [Anne] Rice seems like nothing less than a magician: It is a pure and uncanny talent that can give a voice to monsters and angels both.”—The New York Times Book Review
 
“To read Anne Rice is to become giddy as if spinnning through the mind of time.”—San Francisco Chronicle
 
“If you surrender and go with her . . . you have surrendered to enchantment, as in a voluptuous dream.”—The Boston Globe
 
“Rice is eerily good at making the impossible seem self-evident.”—Time

Ratings and reviews

One of my all time favorite books! Everything I read it I feel like I'm visiting old friends and they've been waiting for me. I fall in love with the characters all over again. I'm always sad to see them go when I finish and then spend the following week day dreaming about them and then they fade away. I'm already day dreaming about visiting my dear friends, longing to read this book again. This time I think I'll try the audiobook. I imagine it'll be quite a different experience. I'm excited!

About the author

Anne Rice lives in New Orleans with her husband, the poet and painter Stan Rice.