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| Title | : | The Feast of All Saints |
| Author | : | Anne Rice |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 570 pages |
| Published | : | January 28th 1992 by Ballantine Books (first published 1979) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Horror. Fantasy |
Anne Rice
Paperback | Pages: 570 pages Rating: 3.85 | 17144 Users | 405 Reviews
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In the days before the Civil War, there lived in New Orleans the gens de couleur libre - copper-skinned half-castes, liberated by their owners, but confined by their color to a life of political nonexistence and social subordination. Still, an aristocracy would emerge in this society: artist, poets, and musicians, plantation owners, scientists and craftsmen whose talents and reputations would extend far beyond the limits of their small world.Mega-selling author Anne Rice's probing, lyrical style sweeps us into their midst as she introduces Marcel, the sensitive, blue-eyed scholar, Marie, his breathtakingly beautiful sister, whose curse is to pass for white; Christophe, novelist and teacher, the idol of all young gens and stunning Anna Bella, whose allure for the well-to-do white man would become legend.
Here is a compelling and richly textured tale of a people forever caught in the shadows between black and white.
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| Original Title: | The Feast of All Saints |
| ISBN: | 0345376048 (ISBN13: 9780345376046) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | New Orleans, Louisiana(United States) |
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This is a fist clenching, hyperventilating, teeth grinding story that was an epic piece of work by Anne Rice. She is typically best known for her vampire-themed works but did an incredible job in her storytelling of the tragedies, false identities, and identity crisis affecting so many lives in Louisiana, with this fictional period piece. Yet, Rice included non-fictional events woven into this storyline to reveal those ugly and monstrous truths many tried to hide in the history of this countryThis is probably one of my three favorite books by Anne Rice. It is set in New Orleans and is about the life of one man and his three families. His white wife and children, his kept quadroon woman and their children, and his slave woman and their child. This book talks about the complexity of race relations in a very personal way and during a time period when people didn't talk about race at all, 1800s. It is not a ghoulish tale, like Rice is known for writing either. It is a period story about
Feast of all Saints: A Refreshing FictionI have been a fan of Anne Rice since I was twelve years old. I t was then that Lestat held me in his arms and whispered sweet nothings in my ear. And it is becuse of this experience that the name Rice has become synonymous with all things preternatural for me. Thus, I was shocked to find, when I began reading The Feast of all Saints that the novel contained no elements of the supernatural save for a few instances of spiritual awakening. I confess that I
This was my first reading of Anne Rice's second novel. In it, you can clearly see the beginnings of the writer she would become. Here we see the roots of her explorations of historical New Orleans and the multigenerational family storytelling that her Mayfair Witches series would make her famous for.I love that in 1979, Rice included a gay character in a work of popular fiction without comment. This person is simply present and his romantic entanglements are described as benignly as any others.
I know that before I discovered this title, I had already watched Interview with a Vampire (to be reviewed later, btw because Lestat. Yes) and had yet to pick up and read anything by Anne Rice. To be honest, I only noticed this title because of the mini-series on Showtime. I was like, 20 when it debuted and I knew very little to nothing about the gen de couleur libre (I almost typed that without looking it up, four years of French, ftw) and it seemed interesting. It was an entire series about
Long and rambling. Not really my taste in books. The writing was amazing and so were the characters. I'm just not much for conversation based plots.
This novel so often gets overlooked; Anne Rice's mystical writings about vampires, mummies and witches easily overshadow it. Pity, because for my money, this is her BEST work. While researching Interview with a Vampire, she gathered enough information, for this, her second novel (as Anne Rice). The book blends a wonderful love of a beautiful city (New Orleans) with a genuine interest in African American culture. The gens de couleur libre, a society of free middle-class mixed-raced people, had
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