Anne Rice

Servant of the Bones Anne Rice

Jacket Description/Flap: In a new and major novel, the creator of fantastic universes o vampires and witches takes us now into the world of Isaiah and Jeremiah, and the destruction of Solomon's Temple, to tell the story of Azriel, Servant of the Bones. He is ghost, genii, demon, angel--pure spirit made visible. He pours his heart out to us as he journeys from an ancient Babylon of royal plottings and religious upheavals to Europe of the Black Death and on to the modern world. There he finds himself, amidst the towers of Manhattan, in confrontation with his own human origins and the dark forces that have sought to condemn him to a life of evil and destruction. Biographical Note: Anne Rice is the author of sixteen books. She lives in New Orleans with her husband, the poet and painter Stan Rice, and their son Christopher. Publisher Marketing: "[Rice] has a real gift for rendering psychically charged mood and melancholy atmosphere".--The New York Times Book ReviewHaving created fantastic universes of vampires and witches, the incomparable Anne Rice now carries us into new realms of the mystical and the magical--and into the presence of a dark and luminous new hero: the powerful, witty, smiling Azriel, Servant of the Bones. He is a ghost, demon, angel--in love with the good, in thrall to the evil. He pours out his heart to us, telling his astonishing story when he finds himself--in present-day New York City--a dazed witness to the murder of a young girl and inexplicably obsessed by the desire to avenge her. Then he takes us back to his mortal youth in the magnificent city of Babylon, where he is plucked from death by evil priests and sorceresses and transformed into a genii commanded to do their bidding. Challenging these forces of destruction, Azriel embarks on his perilous journey through time--from Babylon's hanging gardens to the Europe of the Black Death to Manhattan in the 1990s. And as his quest approaches its climactic horror, he dares to use and to risk his supernatural powers in the hope of forestalling a world-threatening conspiracy and redeeming, at last, what was denied him so long ago: his own eternal human soul. . . . Review Citations:

Library Journal Prepub Alert 03/01/1996 pg. 66 (EAN 9780679433019, Hardcover)

Publishers Weekly 06/03/1996 pg. 60 (EAN 9780679433019, Hardcover)

Kirkus Reviews 05/01/1996 pg. 631 (EAN 9780679433019, Hardcover) - *Starred Review

Booklist 05/15/1996 pg. 1547 (EAN 9780679433019, Hardcover)

New York Times 08/11/1996 pg. 5 (EAN 9780679433019, Hardcover)

Wilson Fiction Catalog 01/01/1996 pg. 65 (EAN 9780679433019, Hardcover)

Wilson Fiction Catalog 01/01/2000 pg. 559 (EAN 9780679433019, Hardcover)

Wilson Fiction Catalog 01/01/2006 pg. 794 (EAN 9780679433019, Hardcover)

Publishers Weekly 06/03/1996 pg. 60 (EAN 9780679759041, Paperback)

Kirkus Reviews 05/01/1996 pg. 631 (EAN 9780679759041, Paperback) - *Starred Review

Library Journal 10/15/1996 (EAN 9780679438335, Analog Audio Cassette)

Library Journal 07/01/1996 (EAN 9780679428329, Hardcover)

Publishers Weekly 06/03/1996 (EAN 9780679428329, Hardcover)

Contributor Bio:  Rice, Anne A. N. Roquelaure is the pseudonym for bestselling author Anne Rice, the author of 25 books. She lives in New Orleans.